we must learn to separate the individual officers, the lower-case police as humans, from the capital P- Police, the system and the problem. For Christians, we stand with people but we stand against systems of oppression. “Fuck the Police” can be possible in a Christian context, because it is the real cry of people, because it is a cry of solidarity, because we do not cry it of people but of systems.

via Ferguson and the Church’s Responsibility: A Call to Black Power — Theology of Ferguson — Medium.

I believe this is right.   Churches certainly could use a theological education on SYSTEMS.  They seem to need it , because they seem to have adopted the knee-jerk reaction to “criticism of the system” as “misbehaving” and “un-American”  (and since when did “UnAmerican become more of a transgression than “UnChristian”?  It happened when American Christians became comfortable within the system and , in the process,  bought into its narrative).