History reminds us again and again that it’s always been easier to believe in miracles, in virgin births and atoning deaths, than something so simple and basic as human solidarity.
Stephen J. Patterson
Stephen J. Patterson is the George H. Atkinson Professor of Religious and Ethical Studies at Willamette University. His latest book is The Forgotten Creed: Christianity’s Original Struggle Against
An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation.
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, Slavery, and
An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of gender difference.
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, from Oxford University Press (October, 2018).
