Friday, August 27, 2010

How Translation Companies Contributed to Our Country’s Christian Faith

The largest religious denominations continued to amass more wealth and it was due to the fact that the 20th century brought the most dramatic cultural, social and economic changes. By the 1930s more converts were coming to the black Baptist churches than to the white Baptist churches, however curious this may seem. The major denominations continued to thrive and their revenues and members increased, as no significant damage was done to them by the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Depression and later on World War II brought a number of significant changes, one of which affected significantly both whites and blacks – it was the twilights of the sharecropping system, whose impact on the nation’s social system can be said to be revolutionary. The horrors of World War II only worsened the tragedy springing up from racial hatred, so black and white Christians called for a termination to racial injustice. The fight for end of segregation would necessitate a lot of learned people, and in Atlanta, for example more and more African-Americans sought the services of Atlanta Translator companies, who would instruct them into the art of communicating with counterparts from foreign countries.

Religion also played an important role in shaping up the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s as maintaining the social order specifically designed by God was the excuse used by both supporters and opponents. To make matters worse, neither black nor white churches provided the necessary moral leadership in the middle of the 20th-century when the U.S. was experiencing its greatest moral struggle. The end was predictable but the price was very high as the series of bloodshed and terror resulted in the win of the principle of Christian equality and the end of racial injustice. Despite the evangelical Protestant being the largest religious group, which has already been discussed, other non-evangelicals could also share their beliefs. Among the denominations that had the most members we could note the Mormons, Catholics, Jews and Muslims. As a large wave of immigrants entered the country with most of them coming from Europe, one of the cities where they chose to enter the country through was New York, which was a major distribution center. The newly-arrived immigrants had difficulties integrating in the new social and cultural environment, so the Chicago Translator Unions offered the people who could best help them and they were always readily available. The largest of these groups were Catholic and Jewish as they brought with them their culture, traditions, customs and religion. These groups were outsiders who were constantly persecuted, but their religion never left them and they overcame all obstacles.

The movement of Mormons was a non-conformist one but they were not able to challenge the existing racial traditions. A Nation of Islam group was formed in Houston in the early 1960s by some African-Americans who took interest in Islam. The Houston Certified Translations Cooperative were instrumental in translating the Koran and other significant Islamic works, which should be used as a basis for the introduction of the new members to the churches. Triggered by the economic, cultural and social changes that were taking place in the 1970s, there has been a great expansion of the fundamentalist churches since then. These churches have inspired many debates over abortion, homosexuality and public prayer at school, but at the beginning of the 21st century, evangelical Christianity continues to dominate the nation’s religious life.

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