A devotional book being sold at Target and other major national retailers has people asking how a prayer book can promote racism against white people.
“A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal” is a best seller in the Christian Meditation Worship & Devotion section on Amazon as well. Sarah Bessey’s book offers “moving, tender prayers offer rest, joyful resistance, and a call to act.”
However, one chapter from a controversial ‘minister’ is causing an uproar for asking God to help promote racism.
Devotional Asks For Help Hating White People
Chanequa Walker-Barnes’ “Prayer of A Weary Black Woman” earned attention on Twitter. In her section of the devotional she asks God to help her hate people who don’t look like her.
People purchasing this book are unknowingly getting a healthy dose of hate.
“Dear God,” Dr. Walker-Barnes writes. “Please help me to hate white people. Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.”
Her prayer, recorded in the bestselling book, “A Rhythm of Prayer,” goes on, listing all the reasons why it would make sense to hate white people. She explains, she wants to hate the “nice White people.— the ones who would have her over for dinner but who question Black Lives Matter. Or the white progressives who have read enough books to sound like they understand and care about vague concepts like racial justice but who actually undermine the cause. She says she doesn’t hate white people who are into social justice. This black woman claims to be a Christian. She also claims to be a minister.
Dear ones, this kind of thinking is a direct result of Critical Race Theory and is completely anti-biblical. It has no god but Satan and is the product of cultivated hatred and envy.
Two Choices
“Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God “(1 John 4:7).
Let us hate one another for our god is malice.
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“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32).
