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Conscious Christianity is often called 'The Black Prophetic Tradition' of which its two most prominent proponents today are Cornel West and Micheal Eric Dyson*
Martin Luther King, Rev Herbert DAUGHTRY, Rev Johnny YoungBlood and the one most in the news recently Rev Jeremiah Wright to name a few are all conscious Christians in my mind of the "Black prophetic Tradition"
So yes you can be Christian and conscious, the father of Black Liberation Theology Hal Cone's book "Black Theology and Black power is a good book to read which deals with this topic.
“Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for “pie in the sky
“And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly.” It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, “building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side.” The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“In the “lynching era,” between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.”
“The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.
― James H. Cone
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17438.James_H_Cone
Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort — in a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil — to make the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help black people learn to love themselves. It's an attempt, he says "to teach people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89236116
Martin Luther King, Rev Herbert DAUGHTRY, Rev Johnny YoungBlood and the one most in the news recently Rev Jeremiah Wright to name a few are all conscious Christians in my mind of the "Black prophetic Tradition"
So yes you can be Christian and conscious, the father of Black Liberation Theology Hal Cone's book "Black Theology and Black power is a good book to read which deals with this topic.
“Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for “pie in the sky
“And yet the Christian gospel is more than a transcendent reality, more than going to heaven when I die, to shout salvation as I fly.” It is also an immanent reality—a powerful liberating presence among the poor right now in their midst, “building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side.” The gospel is found wherever poor people struggle for justice, fighting for their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“In the “lynching era,” between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.”
“The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.
― James H. Cone
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17438.James_H_Cone
Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort — in a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil — to make the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help black people learn to love themselves. It's an attempt, he says "to teach people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89236116
