While it may be characterized as the inception of freedom for the colonizing and imperial-minded European, America represents a great tribulation for the enslaved African, kidnapped and sold an ocean away from his homeland, and it can be characterized as an all-out assault on African peoples’ bodies, culture, and minds. Though the economic interest of Europeans was the impetus for the African Holocaust, European Christian theology has consistently offered religious justification for the inhumane practices of the oppression of Black people—making the fight for freedom, in part, a religious battle. Insomuch, White supremacy is held together by a version of Christianity that venerates whiteness as its most divine ideal. This study explores the religious conundrum that Black people face by reexamining biblical text to connect the sacred and secular experiences of Black people to their social predicament. Apostle Paul’s idea of mortification in Colossians 3:5 and the theory of mortification as intrinsic to the idea of order are connected in order to critique the complex system of religious racism and illustrate the impossibility of freedom under current circumstances. In addition, the theory of social death and the theory of the death-bound-subject are utilized to interpret the Black experience in America, in part, as a battle for spiritual survival in an anathematic state of being. Ultimately, this study concludes that it is the formulation of White supremacy, and not the execution of White supremacy, that places Blacks in confrontation with death (physically and spiritually), and this confrontation has deeply religious underpinnings.

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“他们知道他们裸体”：黑体的辩护

虽然它可以被描述为殖民地和有欧洲思想的欧洲人开始享有自由，但美国却代表了对被奴役的非洲人的巨大哀悼，他们被绑架并出售了自己家乡以外的海洋，这可以说是一场全面的进攻。非洲人民的身体，文化和思想。尽管欧洲人的经济利益是非洲大屠杀的推动力，但欧洲基督教神学一直为黑人压迫的不人道行为提供宗教理由，这是为争取自由而进行的斗争，在某种程度上是一场宗教斗争。毫无疑问，白人至高无上被基督教的一个版本凝聚在一起，该版本崇高白色是其最神圣的理想。这项研究通过重新审视圣经文本，将黑人的神圣和世俗的经历与他们的社会困境联系起来，探索了黑人面临的宗教难题。使徒保罗在歌罗西书3：5中提出的损害观念与作为秩序观念固有的损害理论联系在一起，以便对宗教种族主义的复杂体系进行批评，并说明在当前情况下自由的可能性。此外，社会死亡理论和死亡约束对象理论被用来解释美国黑人的经历，部分是为了在一种存在的数学状态下进行精神生存之战。最终，这项研究得出的结论是，这是白人至上的表述，而不是白人至上的执行，