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Religion in America
The important people
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Douglass | Slave that doesn't support religious masters. He believes they are crueler than all other masters. |
| Grimke | Against slavery and uses the bible to back up here claims. She mainly uses history to explain her claims. |
| Armstrong | For slavery and uses the bible to show that slavery is not mentioned. Tries to make slavery sound better. |
| Stanton | Doesn't think the bible is the word of God. Has a problem with how it treats women and equality. |
| Frothingham | says hell leads to another power=God, hell=God allows horrible pain, Not rational given love and justice, hell is used to scare people |
| Antin | Orthodox. Russian Jew. she knew there were barriers of being Jewish and hated them. Moved to America and basically became an atheist. |
| Heschel | Conservative. Believes in obeying Jewish law entirely, and if you don't, you aren't completely giving yourself to God. |
| Machen | Fundamentalist. Can't separate the human and the supernatural Jesus. Against Liberalist Jesus. Believes in the fully human, fully divine Jesus. |
| Fosdick | Liberal who criticizes liberals who have no use for conservatives, but opposes fundamentalists who want to kick liberals out of churches. |
| Herberg | Catholic-Protestant-Jew, "melting pot" that says these three religions hold value in the US and possess similar spiritual values and "the american way of life". |
| King | Civil rights movement. Black religious rights, and says blacks should have own religion away from whites, but with equality. |
| Harding and Cone | Christ= too American and condemns black people for their looks. Believes God is black because he takes the look of the oppressed. Uses violence to get away from white theology. |
| Brown Douglass | Black women can see power more critically and in its entirety w/o barriers God wants equality, but it sounds like he is taking sides. |
| Hopkins | Not having school prayer makes kids think religion is only on Sundays. Is against no school prayer. |
| Shaeffer | 1st amendment not meant to limit christianity, but to protect it from the government |
| Graham | God of Islam is not Christian God. God of Islam never had a son and instead asks for your sons |
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