A popular book that includes a prayer asking for God to “help me to hate White people” is receiving additional attention after a Virginia pastor posted excerpts from the book on Twitter and urged Christians to be cautious about such theology.

The book, A Rhythm of Prayer, is the No. 1 book in Amazon’s Christian Meditation & Devotion Section and is also available in Walmart’s Christian Life/Prayer section and Target’s Religion/Beliefs section. It includes a collection of prayers and meditations, including one by Chanequa Walker-Barnes that has sparked a controversy.

“Dear God, Please help me to hate White people. Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, and they can stop being racist,” writes Walker-Barnes, a clinical psychologist and ecumenical minister.

Bessey adds that the White people she wants to hate are the “Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly veiled racist comments about ‘those people.’ The people who are happy to have me over for dinner but alert the neighborhood watch anytime an unrecognized person of color passes their house. The people who welcome Black people in their churches and small groups but brand us as heretics if we suggest that Christianity is concerned with the poor and the oppressed.”

Ryan McAllister, the lead pastor at Life Community Church in Alexandria, VA, posted pictures of the entire chapter on Twitter, saying one of his church members sent him the images after discovering the book at Target.

“This kind of thinking is a direct result of CRT and is completely anti-biblical,” McAllister wrote, referencing Critical Race Theory.

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Posted: April 13, 2021 12:13 pm

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