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Full offense but CS Lewis is a significantly better Christian writer than Young will ever be

Bro really just said "we are not told what happens when jesus is done telling these stories but surely everybody clapped" 😭

Okay admittedly I am Jewish and not Christian but I THINK this falls under blasphemy

I

I am deeply confused as to what Christians like

Think Jews relationship with pigs is because the horror of a guy being reduced to having to eat slop isn't that the pigs were also eating it

We don't care that much about pigs man we just don't eat them

I mean it's not surprising given how readily a lot of Christians stumble into being antisemitic but good Gd man this is not a good look after you JUST defended Young's use of the mammy trope

Like we can talk about the intentional antisemitism of the Christian new testament but that's not what our author is doing here instead he's repeating it without critique and as a result BEING ANTISEMITIC

And this bit is just antisemitic so that's Cool

Again, the fact that Young depicts G-d as a motherly Black woman who speaks English with Grammer devised at a New Hampshire white guy's guess what what AAVE sounds like is BAD

Like it's not just bad theology it's also WILDLY RACIST

I honestly forgot that wildly racist attempt at AAVE that this white man from New Hampshire gave his mammy gd holy fuck I forgot how bad it was

Honestly this like justifying the portrayal of Gd as a mammy is so gross

Yeah man the fact that Young depicts Gd as a fucking Mammy is a problem actually

Like it's deeply DEEPLY problematic

Full offense but if I was on an international flight and the pilot announced my birthday I would literally kill the person who told the pilot

It's genuinely so weird when Christians pretend they aren't religious or part of a religion

See the problem here is that if The Shack was well written I might agree with Kruger here but The Shack is horribly written

So I don't

I cannot emphasise enough that Sarayu is in fact, fictional

Young made her up.

She is intended to represent the holy spirit but she is very much NOT a part of the Christian Canon

I don't know enough about this guy to understand why he's comparing The Shack to Making Gumbo

Kruger you know Mack isn't real, right?

It's important to me that you know that

Does
Does Kruger know that the intro that pretends the Shack is a true story was fictional

Because it kinda sounds like he thinks the Shack was a true story and not just a fictional novel framed as a true story

I'm sorry is

Is Paul Young implying Sarayu, a character he made up to represent the holy spirit is just like

A canonical Christian figure??

Because she's not

Okay well the theology of The Shack was nonsense so this isn't a great start