The only reason you want to got to heaven is that you have been driven out of your mind.
The Humanist › Vol. 57 Nbr. 5, September 1997
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Summary
Liberation from established religion
African Americans who were raised in the Christian faith must deal with the fact that their religion puts blacks and women in a lesser place. Instead African Americans should go back to their ancestral religions and worship the earth and nature.See the full content of this document
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The only reason you want to got to heaven is that you have been driven out of your mind.
Unto the woman God said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Genesis 3:16
In my novel The Color Purple, Celie and Shug discuss, as all thoughtful humans must, the meaning of God. Shug says, "I believe God is everything that is, ever was or ever will be." Celie, raised to worship a God that resembles "the little fat white man who works in the bank," only bigger and bearded, learns to agree. I agree also. It was years after writing these words for Shug that I discovered they were also spoken, millennia ago, by Isis, ancient Goddess of Africa, who, as an African, can be said to be a spiritual mother of us all. There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to explore, forbidden to question or to know. Looking back...See the full content of this document
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