On October 17, heretical Christian news outlet Sojourners tweeted an article praising “God is a Black Woman,” a book by Christena Cleveland. This article features quotes from song lyrics and poetry from popular culture that, unfortunately, demonstrate that this form of idolatry is pervasive in American society. For example, the article opens with an excerpt from the poem, “Mother God” by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky:
God is our Loving Mother
You are made in Her image too.
God calls you ‘Beloved.’
She is making all things new.”
It is striking how the radical left demands that people use the preferred pronouns of transgender people while refusing to respect God’s pronouns. Instead, they blasphemously refer to God as “mother” and “she” — in rebellion against God’s own revelation of Himself in the Scriptures as Father, and in defiance of God’s consistent use masculine pronouns to refer to Himself.
Statue Worship
The article goes on to recount Cleveland’s experience when she visited statues of the Black Madonna in Auvergne, in central France. The Black Madonnas are depictions of the virgin Mary with dark skin. Another such statue is located in southern France, in Saint-Gervasy. Speaking of the statue there, Cleveland writes,
“Even more, as a Black Mother, She knows the pain of stolen children too. She knows the pain of children stolen by mass incarceration, the war on drugs, systemic poverty, ableism, and other forms of violence. As someone who has endured the pain of personal loss and family loss, the Sacred Black Feminine empathizes with our pain and stands with us.”
Clearly, Cleveland’s imaginary god aligns with her woke views on various radically left talking points. To her, the statue evokes “the Sacred Black Feminine.” Can we doubt after reading this article that wokeness is, in fact, a pagan religion that has nothing to do with biblical Christianity? Cleveland would do well to hear the words of Isaiah, who establishes that statue idol gods have no power:
Half of the wood he burns in the fire;
Isaiah 44:16–18, NIV
over it he prepares his meal,
he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says,
“Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
he bows down to it and worships.
He prays to it and says,
“Save me! You are my god!”
They know nothing, they understand nothing;
their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
