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The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.

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What is translated from English and into English – and in what quantities – is a question of power.
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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.
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People went to war as a result of it and even today, every Sunday.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
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The Bible affects everybody’s life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.
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Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes
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What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it.
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Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.
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The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.
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So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.
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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language.
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So we’re talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people’s lives in history.
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