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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

1963

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Decline of religion Death of God God Disenchanted world

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Baraka, Amiri (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "What Does Non-Violence Mean?" Midstream. Dec. 1963, vol. IX, no. 4.

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