Word: judaeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message of the joke would be lost in some cultures; in India, for instance, Kali-an incarnation of the Hindu mother goddess-is both female and black. But it bites enough in Western civilization, where Judaeo-Christian theology has intermittently taught white superiority over black and consistently taught male superiority over female. Color prejudice in theology has been largely expunged. Gender prejudice remains. God is the Father. Jesus Christ is the Son. Even the Holy Spirit, in the New Testament, is "he." And women? Women are the daughters of Eve, the original temptress...
Williams, like his former pupil, Martin Luther King, espouses a basic integrationist philosophy. "The Judaeo-Christian teaching," he says flatly, "is simple on the unity of mankind. Those in the black movement who are moving toward separation are wrong. We have been criticizing the white Protestants for separatism. If they were wrong, I don't see how the black militants can be right. What sense does it make in the last quarter of the 20th century for a person to get in a corner all by himself...