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PGU Update: Canadian Germs for the Win!
So, I went to Canada and brought back a souvenir—apparently, sickness. As a result, tomorrow’s show is taking a sick day with me. Don’t worry, we’ll both be back in action on Tuesday, hopefully with stronger immune systems.
I have unearthed the Josh Howerton George Floyd sermon.
Josh Howerton takes a Netflix approach to reading the Bible. Howerton cites the church in Antioch as a diverse church to make a grandiose claim, suggesting that Simeon was Black because he was called Niger.
"Of those five leaders, one was from the Middle East [Simeon or Manaen], one was from Asia [Paul], one the Mediterranean [Barnabas], and one from Africa [Lucias]… Why does it tell us these names and where they’re from?… The unequivocal answer is in the church, God is out to destroy the dividing wall of hostility and create one new man from among every nation of men under our brown-skinned Middle Eastern Savior."
However, all of the leaders were likely Jewish. Lucius was a common Hellenistic Jewish name in Cyrene, a city with a sizable diaspora. There are many possibilities for why Simeon was called Niger, including hair color, darker skin, or even his demeanor, but among the least likely is that he was Black.
We know Paul and Barnabas were Jewish. And both Simeon and Manaen are transliterated Hebrew names. So, Antioch is not evidence for Howerton’s point. He is trying to make this cast a lot more diverse than it actually was. And he tacks on the assumption of Jesus’s skin color to score woke brownie points in the process, which was the point.
This is the entire goal of salvation, Howerton says.