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Got up at 8:45.
Finished my journal entries.
Ate a piece of grapefruit.
Took a bus about 10:30 to do my shopping.
Went to Cost Plus first and bought a pot for my peanut plant, a saucer and a little pottery gift for Dorothy.
Shopped for groceries at the Coop.
Took a taxi home.
Put my groceries away.
Prepared and ate a meal and washed dishes.
I had a box of prepared mix for whole wheat bread. which had been on sale. I baked it today. The process took 2 hours.
I cleaned the apartment.
Took a nap while the bread baked.
The bread came out very good and I ate some with buttermilk.
I was not ready when Christians called at 7:30.
I washed and dressed.
Got a bus about 8:25. Was carrying a bag of t.p. and groceries I had bought for the Temple. Had trouble getting off the bus at Fillmore and smashed the tomatoes but some passengers helped me and they will be usable.
Came into the Temple about 8:45. The congregation was singing and then the choir sang. Archie took the auditorium to task for not trying to understand the words of the songs but only reacting to the rhythm. There were complaints that the words could not be understood, with which Marcy agreed. Anita Kelley read the words of the 3 songs sung tonight. The choir repeated the songs.
Jim was on the podium at 9:30.
Jim: America is only nation in world except Spain and Brazil which refused to sign Genocide Treaty. Senator Mansfield resigned saying there is no hope. Says he feels worse than what he started. His liberty slipping away every day.
Jim took an offering.
Marie Lawrence was freed without serving a day in prison. Bus left here at 3:30 the other night. They said Father, you’ll never make it, but we walked in 5 minutes before judgment. Mike Prokes made another lane of traffic by the side of the road.
Skit. Burlesque about birth of Jesus, pretty loud character.
I don’t enjoy being revelator or revolutionary. It is hard to give up myths long-engrained, in first place, story makes no sense. Worried about effect on guests. Mistake to let those people in because heavy baptism evidence in Bible, its that story is not time. Matthew and Luke both say Joseph was Jesus’s father. Won’t even bother with this stupid story if it weren’t for other teachings in the book which contains it. Black people are accursed, condones slavery. We’d be lost today if we did what Jesus did.
Jim went over the errors in the Bible and the oppression on the blacks and all the poor, the white man’s religion. You say: you’ve taken away my Jesus, what should I do? Come to me, I’ll heal you; I’ll get you out of oppression. We’re building a heaven on earth. You’re programmed like a damn robot. If you’d been through the hell I’ve been through, you’d hate the Bible as I hate it. This Jesus was created by the rich to oppress the poor.
Bob Houston fell on the curb at Fillmore Wednesday night with his glasses on and could feel the broken glass going into his eye but when he got up it had been healed.
Jim took another offering.
Revelations. A woman was healed of cancer, which had metastasized throughout her body, including her brain, which had caused crippling. Helen Love was saved from a heart attack which would have taken her life tonight. She told me she had been in the hospital for several days.
Service was out at 12:00.
I went up to apply for someone to come home with me but no one was assigned to me.
Christians took me home about 1:00.
Read newspapers. Went to bed at 2:30.