This week, UChicago released its course listings for the autumn quarter of the upcoming academic year. One of the classes listed under the religious studies department, titled “Queering God,” caught the eyes of a multitude of students both within and outside the religious studies program.
The class, taught by Professor Olivia Bustion of the UChicago Divinity School, describes itself as asking a set of unconventional questions: “Can God be an ally in queer worldmaking? Is God queer? What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” The description continues by explaining that the class “introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologies.”
Bustion has written papers including “Queering the City of God: W.H. Auden’s Later Poetry and the Ethics of Friendship” and “Autism and Christianity: An Ethnographic Intervention,” the latter of which characterizes itself as elucidating “a distinctively aspie understanding of God.”
The Thinker reached out to Bustion to inquire as to what exactly “queer worldmaking” means and how God could be an ally in queer worldmaking; what would make God, a being without a sexuality, “queer”; and whether or not she sees a contradiction between practicing Judaism, Christianity, or Islam and supporting queer and transgender ideology. The Thinker did not get a response.
I can see how this course can be seen as cheeky and irreverent, appealing to many atheists, agnostics, etc.
As a Christian, I’m recalling what Paul understood from God’s point of view.
Romans 1:22-1:23 (KJV)
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.”
Paul’s talking about people actually carving animal figures out of stone and worshipping them as their god. This professor wants to essentially do the same thing – impart a quality of corruptible man onto God so that we can reverence this manufactured being – or laugh at it in irreverence. We are not corrupt because we engage in sexual activity; we become corrupt because of how we perverse it.
Only an earnest reading of the Holy Bible will allow us to come to an understanding of who God says He is (and who we are to Him).
Fucking lunatics.
More woke gibberish.
Thank G-d The Thinker is highlighting these fucking imbeciles.
People expect more from THE University.