“There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.” IfsRunningJobsChurchJusticeEthicsLaborRelationCourtSalvationUnionsSettlingSacramentsRelationship With GodPersonal RelationshipsLabor UnionPersonal Relationship With God Author:John Shelton Reed
“Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’” SaidHelpingInspirationYoungSpiritIndividualGivenChurchResponsibilityTeachHumilityTaughtDutyExerciseLaborGuidesGods WillSnowLiftsProphetPersonal LifeFaithfulnessSpirit Of GodDischarge Author:Eliza R. Snow
“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?” WayKindChildrenSoulEndsUsedGrowthChurchLinesCarFiguresBirthLaborWorkersSatisfactionProductionsDrivingQuartersRight WayGreedyGrossAutomobileAssemblyProhibitionReproductionBirth ControlFreewaysPopulation GrowthAssembly LineUsed CarJunkyardShowroom Author:Nancy Mairs
“I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.” YearsWarSchoolLastsEvilChurchTeachColorLaborDiedInstitutionsSlaverySundayCreedsExploitationCastesSunday School Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.” WorldMadeRealChurchCostProveTaxesLaborInvestmentFaithfulMassiveGoodsEstatesPretenseIrsPublic GoodGoods And Services Author:Lawrence Wright
“Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.” PeopleUnderstandingChurchClassMiddleMembersLaborOrganizationUnionsPopulationClubsMiddle ClassNationalityBowlingLabor UnionFraternal Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.” MenWayLittlesHas BeensSpiritFoundNationsHoursChurchPrayerStudyLaborActiveAtmosphereInterfereClosetsOur PrayersDelighted Author:Bonar Law
“As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.” WorldHardShowsChurchWifeFashionMissingRevolutionCitizensHusbandFemaleLaborTestsPhonesOneselfNuclearCellsBurningIndianDietsDigitalCrashExpandingCell PhoneReconcileMosquesCastesMassacresSchizophrenicFashion ShowDowryInfanticideDigital RevolutionDelectable Book:Power Politics Source: Power Politics