A major university is offering a blasphemous religious studies course on “Queering God” that applies LGBTQ gender ideology to various religions, making it clear that even God is not safe from wokeism.

The 2023-2024 catalog for the University of Chicago is promoting the disturbing course, according to Fox News.

“Can God be an ally in queer worldmaking? Is God queer? What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam? This course introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologies,” the course description contends.

“We will analyze the ways that contemporary artists, activists, and scholars are using theology to reimagine gender and experiment with new relational forms,” it adds. “Our readings will include a variety of genres: memoir, letters, scriptural interpretation, and a novel. There will be no presumption of previous acquaintance with any of the readings or topics discussed, or indeed with any academic theology or queer theory at all.”

“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…

— The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) July 26, 2023

The course will reportedly be taught by Olivia Bustion. The professor earned her Master of Divinity degree from UChicago in 2014. She is mind-blowingly working on a doctoral program in theology at the school.

Bustion’s English doctoral thesis from the University of Michigan focused on the homosexual tendencies of a British poet named W.H. Auden. She titled her paper “Queering the City of God.” She has also linked Christianity to autism.

Her thesis relied on the works of Leo Bersani, an essayist who published a collection titled “Is the Rectum a Grave?” Bersani wrote one of the “foundations of queer theory,” according to the University of Chicago Press.

“Progressive actors seek to conquer and remake God into some crude mockery in their own image. The Christian God is without gender, without sex. To think of Him in such human terms and reduce Him to these categories is deeply disrespectful,” Joseph Flores, a student co-president of a Christian ministry organization at the University of Chicago, told the Daily Caller in an interview.

Once an esteemed scientifically orientated institution of advanced learning U of Chicago is now featuring courses such as QUEERING GOD and some others https://t.co/ohnZqx5pn7 pic.twitter.com/1fIUkpvpPG

— The Barrington Files (@BarringtonFiles) July 26, 2023

“The idea of ‘Queering God’ is, on its face, quite ridiculous. Simultaneously foolish and offensive, such a line of thinking is emblematic of the societal and spiritual decay we are suffering in our country today,” he pointed out.

Chicago Thinker, a conservative publication at the University of Chicago, originally reported on the story.

The woke university is offering a number of questionable courses that should concern parents including “The Global Black Panther Party,” “Religion in Anime and Japanese Pop Culture,” and “Climate Justice.”

This is the same university that got withering criticism in 2022 for its “Problem of Whiteness” class. Conservative student and then-sophomore Daniel Schmidt branded it the “most egregious” example of anti-white hatred he had seen at the university, according to Fox News.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts. 2 Timothy 4:3.

— Frenchy (@French1Da23760) July 28, 2023

The course sought to “[examine] the problem of whiteness through an anthropological lens, drawing from classic and contemporary works of Critical Race Theory,” according to the course description.

For complaining about the course, Schmidt, who is a self-described “right-wing college activist,” was called a “cyberterrorist.” He was also accused of calling for retaliation against the professor who was scheduled to teach the class.

Schmidt told Fox News Digitial in a recent interview that media and universities expect conservatives to “sit down and shut up.”

Responding to Fox News Digital about the “Queering God” course, the University of Chicago stated, “We are deeply committed to supporting the ability of instructors to design courses and curricula, including those that foster debate and may lead to disagreement. While differences of opinion over course material may arise, the University defends the freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular processes, including courses that may be controversial.”

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— Rapidsloth (@Rapidsloth_) July 28, 2023

“As articulated in the Chicago Principles, the University of Chicago is committed to upholding the values of academic freedom, the free expression of ideas, and the ability of faculty and students to express a wide range of views and to contest the ideas that they oppose,” the university concluded.

The College Fix pointed out the obvious, “We can know God isn’t ‘queer’ because He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah at least partially because of its homosexual conduct.

But it’s not likely to give the university any pause in offering the course.

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