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• Text: ...ore the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s I could weep. It is treating people in a dehumanizing way. It is creating in them a slave mentality where they cower and where they don’t rock the boat, where they take abuse. They were treating them with paternalism and condescension. Malcolm X ex...

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• Text: ...The people need authority. They live by miracle, mystery, and authority. Let them submit. Let them be slaves, simply obedient, unthinking. Give them bread. That’s what the © Grand Valley State University Do I Need Religion? Richard A. Rhem Page 4   masses need, not the freedom o...

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• Text: ...wer will be turned on in order to regenerate this monster that we have created which is not our servant, but of which we are slaves. One could wonder if it can ever be. And yet, the dream won't die, and there have always been a minority of people who have believed that the best is yet ...

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• Text: ...t and they wait, and he gets discouraged. And then one day Sarah takes things into her own hands and she says, "Have my slave girl from Egypt, Hagar," and Abraham has a child, Ishmael, with Hagar. There are the natural, normal kind of tensions and conflict, but in any case, Ishmae...

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• Text: ...e know of as the Age of Feudalism when the castle was on the hill and the lord of the castle had serfs. The serf served as a slave to the castle and the castle gave protection to the serf. Anselm said, let’s understand this whole drama this way: The lord of the castle is God, who has infi...

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• Text: ...gnity and the justice of the Black in South Africa and the Latino in South America and Central America as ever I was for the slaves in America or the patriots of the Revolution of 1776. Now, America, that you have climbed to the place of power in the world, my challenge to you," says A...

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• Text: Rather than kill him, they sold him to traveling merchants who brought him to Egypt and sold him as a slave. The brothers ripped his beautiful cloak, stained it with blood and took it to their father, claiming a wild animal had killed Joseph. Jacob grieved and would not be comforted.

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• Text: ...the last day of the Jewish year the child was present at the solemn [ceremony] of Rosh Hashanah. He heard thousands of these slaves cry with one voice, 'Blessed be the name of the Eternal.' Not long before he too would have prostrated himself and with such adoration, such awe, suc...

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• Text: ...You don’t get out the catechism. You tell the story. You say, "Our fathers and mothers were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt and God brought you out ..." You tell the story. And the story becomes that which is remembered every year, annually in festival, in ceremony and ritual, and th...

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• Text: ...God breaks through or manifests, and we respond. Moses responds and we get the whole liberation movement of the slaves out of Egypt, and we get the nation Israel and that founding experience in the Exodus. Jesus comes along and Jesus, the Jew’s conception of the intimacy of the relationsh...

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• Text: ...ithfulness, they celebrated every year and the Jewish community to this day still keeps Passover, remembering that they were slaves in Egypt and they were delivered by the mighty hand of God. In the beautiful statement of Moses in the Book of Exodus, in the words of God, "See how I hav...

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• Text: ...It is stated in those opening chapters: the cries of my people have come to me, and God calls Moses to lead those slaves out of Egyptian bondage. Walter Brueggemann speaks about the royal consciousness of Egypt that had a totalitarian grip on the people who were held in oppressive economic ...