Sunday, May 4, 2008

Re-assessment

Ok, I take it back. The Catholics may have South American Liberation Theology, the Jesuit priests who stood by the masses, willing to be tortured to death by tyrants.

But Protestants came to flower in the Uuuuuunited States.

The Black Church.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/weekinreview/04powell.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

I spent most of my childhood being incredibly bitter and torn by the fire and brimstone of being the Hindu child at my Baptist school. But being infused in the King James Version probably forged if nothing else, my take on the English language.

Rumi did have the language of lovers, wine and ecstasy. And Hindu texts the honor of war, patriotism and chivalry. But Judaism and the Black Church have the Old Testament and the fires of Exodus.

In other news, i have decided on a Blackberry.

No comments: