Chicago-area church called out for ‘fasting from whiteness’ for Lent: ‘Wokeness gone mad’

Boston Rev. Eugene Rivers III, director of the Seymour Institute, known as out “wokeness gone mad” Thursday on “Fox & Mates” after a church in suburban Chicago introduced they might be “fasting from whiteness” throughout Lent.

“To racialize probably the most excessive holy season within the Christian calendar is a case of, at finest, wokeness gone mad,” Rivers informed “Fox & Mates.” 

“If these misguided white liberals wish to do one thing, they should problem the theft and misuse of tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} by the Black Lives Matter group. If you wish to have interaction in some form of penitent exercise that focuses on justice, cease taking part in the race card.”

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Rivers referred to a brand new report claiming BLM leaders spent $6 million of donor funds to buy a mansion in California after reportedly bringing in roughly $90 million in 2020.

Based on First United Church of Oak Park’s web site, the church is doing a mixture of “giving one thing up’ and ‘taking one thing on.”

“In our worship providers all through Lent, we won’t be utilizing any music or liturgy written or composed by white individuals. Our music shall be drawn from the African American spirituals custom, from South African freedom songs, from Native American traditions, and plenty of, many extra,” it stated.

“For Lent, it’s our prayer that in our non secular disciplines we might develop as Christians, united within the physique of Christ with individuals of all ages, nations, races, and origins,” the church added.

Rivers argued that the Chicago church is diminishing the significance of the vacation. 

“We aren’t related in any strategy to some goofy … wokeness-gone-mad gimmick which diminishes the importance and ethical grandeur of Christ’s sacrifice for the world,” he informed Lawrence Jones. 

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Rivers’ sentiments had been shared by Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks, CEO of Mission H.O.O.D., who informed “Fox & Mates First” that it is “the worst form of ethical preening” as a result of it is basically meaningless gesture. 

“It tries to make them appear extra morally virtuous, however on a regular basis it is nothing however sizzling air,” he informed host Carley Shimkus.