Word: antichrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black theology is the only genuine manifestation of Christianity in America today. White theology is basically racist and nonChristian. If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It is the enemy of Christ...
Religious belief, it would seem, has fallen on bad days. God is dead. Hell has cooled. Man's only heaven is what he can make of earth. Old-fashioned militant atheism may be on the wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...
...usual assumption is that Schonberg rescued music from its careening plunge into the decadence of diatonic gigantism by his systematic formulation of the liberating discipline of dodecaphony. People tend to divide into apostles of either Schonberg-the-Savior or Schonberg-the-Antichrist. And so the apostolic succession of innovative geniuses passed from Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Schonberg (or the Devil) and then to sleep. The common antinomy sets Schonberg against Stravinsky, coalescing all music into two schools in a priceless display of Manichaean passion. Schonberg is seen as the seminal prime mover, and Stravinsky [and to a lesser...
...stars only when he is wallowing in the mud. He is modern, and not quite human. He is really a child of myth and philosophy. His symbolic antecedents are the Biblical false gods of ancient fertility rites and orgiastic sensuality, and the neopagan doctrines of Nietzsche's Dionysian antiChrist. What Brecht conceived of was not so much a free soul as an animal will, ruthlessly, amorally, narcissistically possessed by his creature instincts...
Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian-which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from...