Preached
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I, who
preached
contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service--I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.
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Leonardo himself had
preached
against the use of gold, so it was absolutely anathema at that moment.
And he said, "Don't do that again, Rev." (Laughter) But I
preached
and I built these programs, and I thought maybe if my colleagues did the same that it would make a difference.
And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a paradox that was emerging inside of me, and the paradox was this: in all of those sermons that I
preached
decrying the violence, I was also talking about building community, but I suddenly realized that there was a certain segment of the population that I was not including in my definition of community.
Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who
preached
a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.
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