Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form sculpted out of assorted junk, an effigy caricaturing the godhead of white power as it might be conceived by the black African mind. The huge breadbox mouth flaps open to emit the platitudes of white domination, the solace of the white man's religion, the equity of the white man's law. The cast play the colonizers of Angola and the colonized interchangeably, singing Brechtian ditties that sardonically mock the oppressors and vivify the laments of the oppressed...
...would not surprise me if many of the clergymen who are here today feel some of the same contempt for organized religion that our unreligious or anti-religious brothers feel. They know better than we do the long and bloody history of evils committed in the name of religion, the long history of compromise and Erastian subservience to political power, the long history of theological hair-splitting and the burning of heretics, and they feel more deeply than we do the hypocrisy of Sunday (or Saturday) morning. Perhaps the things that made some of us leave the church...
...radical tradition is still alive: it is present here in this church. Those of us who disregard organized religion, I think, are making a mistake if they also disregard this tradition and its presence today. This tradition is something to which...
...exist with or without God. I think it makes perfect sense to describe this dimension as an experience of a Supreme Being. Whether it's your own being supreme, or an external thing that seems at the moment to be crucially important. I used Tillich's definition of religion as one's ultimate commitment or ultimate concern. On that kind of definition, I would stand...
...fundamental distinction between religion and politics. Religion and morality are the same, and politics is an extension of morality. I made that point very clear, but they didn't seem to see it. The very first question at my hearing was, 'Mr. Ferber, what are your political beliefs? They didn't take too kindly to the fact that I had caused all kinds of 'trouble' in high school and college and got arrested in Chester. I couldn't be religious and do that. Apparently, a religious guy just sits off in a corner and meditates. And a pacifist...