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%CHRIST CHURCH NEGLECT CONFESSION TRUTH INTEGRITY+970623
%SLAVERY RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TOBACCO MEN WOMEN+970623
%NICOTINE MARRIAGE MACHO MALE HUSBAND WIFE SEX+970623
%BUSINESS ADVERTISE DESIRE DOMINANT ALCOHOL ADDICT+970623
%COLONISTS SCIENTISTS TECHNOCRATS MEANS SALVATION+970623
%JUDGE PERFECT LEGAL COLLUSION GAME SELF DECEPTION 970623
The refrain of this "song" is:
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Yet the Christian Church as a whole was slow to speak
out clearly, firmly, gently, and helpfully to reveal what
is essential to the enjoyment of balanced personal and
communal integrity within the Kingdom of Heaven which is
at hand.
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The plaintive song is as follows:
Slave owners abused scriptures to justify their slave
trade and slavery as a comfortable life style
Refrain
White citizens treated descendants of slaves as
second class citizens
Refrain
Employers treated their employees unfairly and with
little respect and little consideration
Refrain
To increase their profits tobacco companies
manipulated men, women and children's tendencies to become
addicted to nicotine which would kill many of them
Refrain
Colonists took advantage of native peoples and
natural resources in "under-developed" parts of Planet
Earth
Refrain
Marriages died and were lacking in true love
Refrain
Husbands abused their wives and children
Refrain
Dominant males dominated females and children within
the life of the church
Refrain
Young people wanted to know how to be true to
themselves and each other about their sexual desires,
needs and motivations
Refrain
The entertainment industry glamorized violence and
casual sexuality
Refrain
Businessmen and advertisers manipulated men, women
and children's sexual desires to increase profits
Refrain
Many men, women and children became addicted to
alcohol, work, sex, drugs and religious self-righteousness
Refrain
Religious leaders stigmatized victims of AIDS and
refused to deal with the threat of AIDS openly and
honestly
Refrain
Corporations charged interest rates which imprisoned
the poor, weak and powerless
Refrain
Scientists and technocrats taught that they had found
the means to salvation
Refrain
Militarists promoted war and preparations for war as
being essential to peacemaking
Refrain
Militarists said we had to be ready to totally
destroy all life on planet earth to protect our superior
political system, economic system, lifestyle and religion
Refrain
Political leaders encouraged us to play their
collusive games of mutual self-deception with them
Refrain
Judgementalists and perfectionists preached that we
had to conform to their expectations to be saved
Refrain
Individualists preached that our salvation depends
upon our individual desires, beliefs, faith, works, life-
styles and achievements
Refrain
Legalists preached that our salvation depends upon
our conformity to proper rules, regulations, prescriptions
and proscriptions
Refrain
What does the Lord require of us, Her Children?
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