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To: cosmicforce who wrote (247690)	3/20/2014 12:18:55 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542054

<<Churches were central to the civil rights movement - not just black churches but other churches. That is undeniable. Okay - they were thinking church people back in 1688 and we probably would have shared little in terms of metaphysical POVs. Generally it seems that Quakers got that right on the personal actions and responsibility side of things. >> Civil rights movement: Well, churches and universities. Remember it was illegal to teach African Americans to read at one time and their schools were terrible. So they had no first generation of educated parents to teach the children and guide them in school. That is where the Jews are strong. The entire culture pushes and teaches the kids. And they prosper as a result, and can fight their racist foes with skill. The church was all many had in the Dark Ages and all the African American ever had as a place of safety and congregation. So they had to use that as their rallying point and place of safety, like in the Dark Ages. In both cases no one was teaching them to read and learn. And as our society destroyed the African American society, drove them into poverty and limited good schools they had a high mountain to climb to get educated. If we had been educating African Americans starting when they first came here they would have found a way to end racism much earlier and be in as good of shape as everyone else. And our society would have been much better for it. We see the same manifestation with many minorities where they substitute church for school. It never works out well. My point: if people had spent all the time in schools they spent in churches all through history we and they would be much better off today. Education produces more self actualized people, and morality, than churches do. Plus, what many atheists and liberals are trying to avoid .by not sending their kids to church is confusing them by mixing myth and reality. Better to just stick to reality.