William Penn on Economic Inequality

"It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess"

-- William Penn, 1693

Christian Slavery

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

-- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass


Douglass' truth probably goes to the heart of the Church' problem in its "Christian p.c." thinking. Group-think takes over when individuals fail to think. And group-think enslaves its followers, incapacitating them for any but programmatic thought, and conditioned response.

But independent thought in itself doesn't make us free (indeed, it can be its own snare). Everything depends on the end to which we set the thoughts of our hearts. Only Truth (Who Jesus said He IS) makes people free.