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Espirituais mas não espirituais?

By the 1970s, as a student evangelist in Canada, Chile, Brazil and the Philippines I had a chance to engage with students who showed this new openness to the religious. I remember the physics student in Mexico who shouted at me during the question time in a lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 'We are not any more interested in Marx and how to change the world. What I would like to know is if the Christian faith has a method for developing the potential of the spiritual forces inside me'. In many cases this new attitude allowed Christians to demonstrate a freer and uninhibited expression of their faith through prayer, song and drama in the open air. I found myself involved in dialogues with people whose language was strangely similar to the language of some forms of evangelicalism: joy in the heart, a feeling of self-realization, a sense of peace and harmony, a feeling of goodwill towards all human beings, including animals and planet earth. However, when I
There once was a man who just couldn't cry He hadn't cried for years and for years Napalmed babies and the movie love story For instance could not produce tears As a child he had cried as all children will Then at some point his tear ducts ran dry He grew to be a man, the feces hit the fan Things got bad, but he couldn't cry His dog was run over, his wife up and left him And after that he got sacked from his job Lost his arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore Ah, but sill not a sniffle or sob His novel was refused, his movie was panned And his big Broadway show was a flop He got sent off to jail; you guessed it, no bail Oh, but still not a dribble or drop In jail he was beaten, bullied and buggered And made to make license plates Water and bread was all he was fed But not once did a tear stain his face Doctors were called in, scientists, too Theologians were last and practically least They all agreed sure enough; this was sure no cream
you think your great big husband will protect you, you are wrong you think your little wife will protect you, you are wrong you think your children will protect you, you are wrong you think your government will protect you, you are wrong