“The sinners … did not even have the consolation of feeling they were in God’s good books. The educated people told them that they were displeasing to God and “they ought to know.””

—  Albert Nolan

Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 24.

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South African priest and activist 1934

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