Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"In An Indigenous People's History of the United States (for Young People), Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz makes a compelling argument that the Puritans and the Pilgrims were each a cult. They were so outside of mainstream theology that they had to flee their country in order to create 'godly societies.'

"Once I saw that in print, I could feel myself backing away from that zealotry. What if we sought to deprogram ourselves from the cult of the Puritan work ethic that's still taught in schools and underlies our myth of the 'American Dream'? What if we allow this time of physical distancing become the strangest lesson ever for all of us?"

-- Rev. Jude Geiger, "Refusing the Lie", 2020-04-29 [thanks to Rev. Lyn Cox (revlyncox_feed) for linking to this]