The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment..

[]. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment.. [].

W. E. B. Du Bois

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