{"id":105,"date":"2006-11-28T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2006\/11\/28\/105\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T23:20:25","slug":"105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2006\/11\/28\/105\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Humanism Flyer & Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog entry contains the flyer for our exciting event next monday, and a controversial poem by Langston Hughes. Please note the poem is not to be taken as a statement of the values of contemporary Humanism, but rather, as evidence that Hughes (along with many famous African American Intellectuals) engaged in a serious critique and ultimately a rejection of traditional religion, in favor of a more human-centered philosophy of life. For a detailed description of the upcoming event, see the entry below.<\/a>
\n\"African<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodbye Christ<\/strong>
\nby Langston Hughes
\n<\/em>Published in Negro Worker (Nov.-Dec. 1932)
\n***
\nListen, Christ,
\nYou did alright in your day, I reckon\u2014
\nBut that day’s gone now.
\nThey ghosted you up a swell story, too,
\nCalled it Bible\u2014
\nBut it’s dead now,
\nThe popes and the preachers’ve
\nMade too much money from it.
\nThey’ve sold you to too manyKings, generals, robbers, and killers\u2014
\nEven to the Tzar and the Cossacks,
\nEven to Rockefeller’s Church,
\nEven to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
\nYou ain’t no good no more.
\nThey’ve pawned you
\nTill you’ve done wore out.<\/p>\n

Goodbye,
\nChrist Jesus Lord God Jehova,
\nBeat it on away from here now.
\nMake way for a new guy with no religion at all\u2014
\nA real guy named
\nMarx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker ME\u2014
\nI said, ME!<\/p>\n

Go ahead on now,
\nYou’re getting in the way of things, Lord.
\nAnd please take Saint Ghandi with you when you go,
\nAnd Saint Pope Pius,
\nAnd Saint Aimee McPherson,
\nAnd big black Saint Becton
\nOf the Consecrated Dime.
\nAnd step on the gas, Christ!
\nMove!<\/p>\n

Don’t be so slow about movin?
\nThe world is mine from now on\u2014
\nAnd nobody’s gonna sell ME
\nTo a king, or a general,
\nOr a millionaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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