{"id":1416134,"date":"2022-04-02T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416134"},"modified":"2022-04-02T14:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T18:44:39","slug":"catholic-university-speakers-urges-attendees-to-crucify-whiteness-and-ethically-lie-to-right-historys-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-university-speakers-urges-attendees-to-crucify-whiteness-and-ethically-lie-to-right-historys-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic University Speakers Urges Attendees To \u2018Crucify Whiteness\u2019 And \u2018Ethically Lie\u2019 To Right History\u2019s Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-university-speakers-urges-attendees-to-crucify-whiteness-and-ethically-lie-to-right-historys-wrongs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416134&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-84743811.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Catholic university recently hosted an event titled \u201cRejecting White Christianity,\u201d featuring a speaker who told attendees that white people needed to \u201ccrucify their whiteness\u201d and urged others to \u201cethically lie\u201d to make amends for past wrongs.<\/p>\n<p>The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/catholic-university-speaker-crucify-whiteness-embrace-hopelessness-ethically-lie\/\">reported<\/a> that Carlow University invited Dr. Miguel De La Torre, a professor of social ethics and \u201cLatinx studies\u201d at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, who spoke on March 3. According to the Fix, which reviewed video of De La Torre\u2019s speech, the professor \u201cbegan his presentation by lambasting evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against everything Christianity stands for, I don\u2019t know what Christianity they are practicing,\u201d De La Torre said. \u201cBut I want nothing to do with that Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De La Torre then spoke of differences between \u201cwhite theology and ethics\u201d and \u201cLatinx ethics,\u201d reportedly noting \u201cwhite\u201d doesn\u2019t refer to skin color but to an \u201contological concept,\u201d the Fix reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. But the good news is there is salvation,\u201d De La Torre said. Later in his speech, he reportedly said salvation means \u201cwe [who are colored] have to crucify our colonized minds, and for our white brothers and sisters, they need to crucify their whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De La Torre also rejected \u201chope,\u201d saying it was a white concept, the Fix reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe embrace Euro-centric concepts like hope because it helps to pacify the oppressed during their oppression,\u201d he said. \u201cIt leads to spiritual liberation, and ignores physical liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m defining hope through my own Latino roots. In Spanish, hope is esperanza, esperanza comes from the word esperar, which means \u2018to wait.\u2019 And we\u2019re not quite sure what we\u2019re waiting for, or how long we\u2019re waiting for\u2014and what we\u2019re waiting for may never come. This hope in Spanish does not mean the same thing in English,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He then explained that hope was \u201ca middle-class excuse to do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on, De La Torre said he uses what he calls a \u201ctrickster ethic\u201d to change society to his vision. This ethic, he said, includes \u201chow to ethically lie so we can discover what is true, how to ethically steal so we can feed those who are hungry\u2026[and] how to disrupt the structures that have trained us to oppress ourselves and to take upon our body our own discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis empire was built on stolen resources and cheap labor,\u201d he added. \u201cSo hospitality is really the wrong word. What we need is restitution\u2026By seeing this dilemma through the eyes of the margin, we come to a very different understanding of what the Christian response should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TFP Student Action, a conservative nonprofit and Catholic watchdog group, <a href=\"https:\/\/tfpstudentaction.org\/blog\/professor-tells-students-reject-white-christianity-at-carlow-university\">protested<\/a> the event at Carlow, writing that De La Torre \u201cadvocates the overturning of order and morals by violent means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean McFarland, Carlow University\u2019s public relations and communications manager, told the Fix that \u201cviewpoints of lecturers should not be taken as either an endorsement or opposition of how the University feels about a particular issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, the intent of our university\u2019s liberal arts tradition is to expose students to a variety of worldly perspectives and encourage them to think critically and individually on how they feel about the topic(s) in question,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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