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...precedent-the civil rights movements of the 1960s was born in the Black Christian church, and there found its greatest source of strength. Rev. Martin Luther King, writing in 1963 from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, expressed the central theme of his wing of the civil rights movement: "Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." But the church of Martin Luther King was the church of an oppressed people. The church of the majority of Americans...
...rigidly repressive force in this world, acting to preserve, not to change. As Jesuit priest Jon Sobrino, a professor of theology at a Salvadoran university, says in the preface to his Christology at the Crossroads. "For some reason it has been possible for Christians, in the name of Christ, to ignore or even contradict fundamental principles and values that were preached and acted upon by Jesus of Nazareth." You have your Inquisition and your Crusades and your indulgence-selling and your papal imperialism, and in some ways you have a pretty grim picture. But from that legacy of dogma...
...handful of card manufacturers, book publishers and evangelical preachers are to be believed, Christmas has been celebrated on December 25 ever since Mary placed the Christ child in a manger. Unfortunately, historical documents, legend and law prove this widespread rumor unfounded. Books on the history of Christmas and on holiday traditions show that Christmas festivities have as firm a root in pagan ritual as Christian rite and that Massachusetts itself at one time played the grinch...
Early Christians condemned birthday celebrations as a repugnant heathen custom and kept no record of the anniversary of Christ's birth. As late as 245 A.D., the African church father and philosopher Origen wrote that it was sinful even to contemplate observing Jesus's birthday "as though he were a King Pharaoh...
...early in the fourth century, however, Christians were beginning to warm to the idea of a Christmas celebration. But because no one knew when Christ's birth really was, the religious celebrated variously and sporadically with the most popular dates being January 1, January 6, March 25, September 29 and December...