The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-28
Ridicules Blacks
For Worshiping

ton said, but the Negro, accepting |
Christianity as genuine, has visions
of heavenly choirs instead of organ
izing to fight existing segregation. |
Little More Faith
Describing the recent dinner given |
by Opportunity Magazine in New
York, Mr.. Calverton said the chorus
of jubilee singers sang, "All We
Need Is Little More Faith In
Jesus"
Really what the race needs, he
admonished, is less faith in Jesus
and a greater control of economic
conditions.
Christianity on every occasion, he
continued, is operated not to help
the Negro, but to oppose him. Abra.
ham Lincoln was not concerned
| about emancipation of the Negro ex-
cept as it would save the union, Mr..
Calverton quoted William Lloyd
Garrison, the great abolitionist, as
| saying: christianity is the main
pillar OF American slevary."
Promoted Slavery
The United States nearly had to
| abolish the Christian church to get
rid of slavery, Mr.. Calverton said.
"The Christian church not only
protected, but promoted slavery.
/ Slave leaders quoted the Bible to
prove slavery was a righteous insti-
! tuition" he said, land Dixie pastors
had hope of kind of slavery in
Heaven"
Other WorIdliness
The whole trouble with Christian
ity and with religion in general said
Mr.. Calverton, is its other worldli-
ness instead of this-worldliness.
| Christianity, he said, was used by
the ruling classes to make the CON-
mon people satisfied with their lot,
to give them beautiful dreams so as
to blot ont the hideous reality all
about them.
Speaking in general of how Chris
tianity had handicapped the world,
MIR. Calverton cited a number of his
torical figures like Copernicus, Gall
leo. Sir Isaac Newton and Charles
Darwin, scientist, prosecuted by the
Christian church, because the scien-
tific truth they published was at
variance with the Bible.
Kelly Miller's Reply
In his reply, Kelly Miller declared
that II Christianity were handicap
in the world, how was II that the
European Christian nations are at
the head of the civilized world to-
day.
Later Mr.. Calverton answered this
by saying that European civilization
is due to its geographical location.
along trade routes and its climate
rather than its Christianity.
Dean Miller said that Mr.. Calver-
ton had made the best possible de-
Tense for an impossible argument.
Segregation, he said, was not only
unrighteous, but unchristian and
unholy. 81
Mistakes of Science
Christianity, he said, has made
mistakes, but so had science. He
mentioned the fact that yellow fever
was treated for many years as an in
fictitious disease.
Christian leaders, he said, were
not infallible. Moses couldn't wait
for Copernicus and had to make use
of the truth that. he knew as COM
mon property.
Speaking of the mistakes that
science has made, Dean Milter said
that 1O.0OO,OO0 persons laid down
their lives in the recent World War
for democracy, .4
Africans ,..
II Christianity has been handi-
cap to the American Negro, he said
why is it that Africans are SO iar
behind?
/ Christianity, Dean Miller said, was
r responsible for the abolition OF slaV-
cry. -
"A man." he said, cant be a
slave and a Christian" The Negro :
: $50 years of servitude in the United
, states was a period of education
2 He learned to Overcome. by under
8 going" He learned that he Is
2 sheep among wolves and must be as
{ wise as serpent and as harmless
} as a dove.
Passive Resistance
"He learned the doctrine Of pas
S sive resistance and he must cling
4 to II until he acquires strength to
Z maintain himself by force"
: Christianity, he said. enabled the
! slaves to bear the burdens OF servi'
I tude while hoping for better LIE
e hereafter. The dean quoted hum.
t orously the slave song. Before II
e Be A Slave I'll Be Buried In MY
Grave and Go Home to My LORD
&. and Be Free"
= God Has No Color
: God has no color, Dean Miller de
/, clared dramatically. 81 do not wor
: ship a white God"
y God IS a spirit" he quoted, "anc
i those who worship Him must wor
ship Him in spirit and truth.
n "If God isn't white, what color Il
4 Hep countered Mr.. Calverton In re
9 buttal. According to the Scripture
God made man in His own image.
No Contribution
The difference between science
and religion, Mr.. Calverton said wa
that science had made contribution
y to the world and religion. had mad
, none.
at might be all right for Negroe
to be meek and TO feel that the!
would inherit the earth, but the.
didn't have very much to show TO