Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the fulfillment of the redeeming process required of white America for the ravaging of blacks' humanity through America slavocracy--followed by six generations of institutionalized white supremacy or racism down to the 1960s--is still another century away. This, I fear, might sound rather un-Christian on my part--a great-great-grandson of African Methodist Episcopal clergymen--but I don't mean to sound that...
...there is no hesitancy whatsoever toward that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness, toward the character of Rev. Gomes' proposal. But I break with Rev. Gomes in regard to operationalizing this goal in the form he proposes. Why this opposition? Because there must be a principle of reciprocity at the very foundation of any serious endeavor by any of us to institutionalize that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness. The millions of injured souls--of spiritually ravaged and smashed human beings--victimized by the white Americans who controlled and benefited from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make...
...Lundman was raised in a Christian Scientist family. One of the fundamental precepts of the Christian Scientist church is a reliance on prayer to heal illness to the absolute exclusion of conventional medical care. Therefore, when Ian complained of stomach pains, his family, in strict compliance with and full faith in the proscriptions of the Church, began to pray...
...illness, diagnosed as diabetes, got progressively worse, his parents enlisted the aid of the Christian Science practitioners--not medical doctors--who sat with Ian and led the family in reading hymns. Despite these valiant efforts, Ian died. Medical experts testified during the trial that a routine shot of insulin would have saved Ian's life...
Tragic, and morally charged. However, what propelled this case into the political arena was a different issue entirely. Ian's parents were divorced. He lived with his mother and stepfather, both of whom are devout Christian Scientists. His father, Douglass Lundman, with whom Ian did not live...