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Religion for All

In the show’s online discussion we continue our talk with the two famous guests: Mrs. Shinobu Matsuura, the wife of Reverend Issei Matsuura, active propagator of the Buddha-Dharma and the leading member in the BCA community, and Black Elk, well known for his participation in the Ghost Dance and Lakota tradition. My name is Sally Spiritualist and the name of the show is Religion for All.
Black Elk
The transcontinental railroad is completed, the herds of buffalo extinct and we find ourselves in estranged, barren territories. We can not hunt nor farm, the fruit of the land has been yanked. My people and I looked to Wovoka for his vision, for the return of the world that existed before Wasichus (Europeans). Yet, after the Wounded Knee, no dream is safe, no practice left untouched.
No religion approves greed and yet in the name of religion and prosperity, people steel and conquer, take and abandon. In the end, with all the wealth and all the lands, they still seek for more. My questio...

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