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Published · transcript-backedSujatha Gidla: evaluation
15 Nov 2017 Conversations with Tyler Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)
“I thought Christian brotherly love is the way to emancipation of all oppression in the world. But when I grew up and I saw in churches people being discriminated—rich people and poor people in church—I thought, I don’t know what Jesus is going to do in the other world, but nothing is happening now.”
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- 15 Nov 2017
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…Your family is Christian. Yeah, we view Christianity as a religion of kindness and compassion. That is how we started. Then we moved into communism. I thought Christian brotherly love is the way to emancipation of all oppression in the world. But when I grew up and I saw in churches people being discriminated—rich people and poor people in church—I thought, I don’t know what Jesus is going to do in the other world, but nothing is happening now. To me, what my uncle was doing seemed appealing at that time. It was very highly romantic movement. Young people from high caste and very wealthy young people, people who had great futures sacrificed that, and they were fed into the mouth of state repression, and I was one of them. I wanted to do something for the people. What was it like being in prison after you were arrested?…
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