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The only looming catastrophe is this book! I wish I could be kinder but the polemical tone of the book itself demands the same response (answer the fool according to his folly!) Poorly researched by someone who definitely knows how to put together an academic work. More polemic than exegetical. Scripture citations misapplied and without exegesis. Tactic of the same kinds of cults Voddie accuses antiracist as being. N some points he appears to through out the baby with the bath water and seems to say that racial reconciliation of any kind is not part of the gospel. Ephesians 2:11-22, 4:1-6, Rev. 5:9, 7:9 all seems to say that racial reconciliation is the eschatos product of the gospel. Voddie appears to have a gospel of “work hard and you can make it like I did!” That seems to be the function of chapter 1 and his life story as of his experience is monolith while condemning the experiences of others. This book is part of the problem. Deaths of people like Breonna Taylor and Tamil Rice are “tragic” but never condemned. To much interacting with secular authors and not enough serious or academic interaction with his Christian brothers and the exegesis offered in works readily available. Instead, Voddie is content to lump his brothers and sister for whom Christ died as “cult members.” Nothing scholarly about this and everything polemical.