VS.

1A
Religion and politics cannot be separated in real life.

1B
Religion and politics should be always separated in real life.

2A
Spiritual means the opposite to material, worldly and historical.

2B
Spiritual, means the opposite to death, oppression and destruction.

3A
Theology departs from knowledge of the word of God.

3B
Theology departs from acknowledging social and historical context.

4A
Preach the gospel means good news of life and freedom to everyone.

4B
Preach the gospel means inviting to conversion to enjoy new life and freedom in Christ.

5A
The People of God are members of the Christian family.

5B
The People of God are members of the human family.

6A
God our Father has no preference among his children.

6B
God our Father has a preferential love for those in poverty and suffering.

7A
The Kingdom of God is in Heaven.

7B
The Kingdom of God starts historically here and now.

8A
To be Christian is to firmly believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior.

8B
To be Christian is to firmly believe we are all sisters and brothers, children of one Father.

9A
A Christian theologian should never base reflections on atheists’ and anti-religion statements.

9B
A Christian theologian can use atheists’ and anti-religion statements.

10A
The Church exists before the Bible (New Testament).

10B
The Bible (New Testament) exists before the Church.

Nunca quiso ayudar a la misa en las fiestas principales de la comunidad. El cura de un distrito vecino que venía a celebrarlas le pidió que hiciera de sacristán, le exigió muchas veces. Lahuaymarca tenía un sacristán indio.

He never wanted to participate as an altar server on the main community festivities. The priest from a neighboring district, who came to celebrate the mass, asked him to be the altar server, he actually demanded that of him many times. Lahuaymarca had an Indian sexton/sacristan who was the actual altar server there.

━ Ese no sabe. Repite las palabras como loro, no entiende; casi no es cristiano. Tú eres mestizo, organista, contestas en latín. La misa será más grande contigo ─ le dijo el cura en la víspera de una fiesta grande.

━ That sexton doesnʼt know anything. He repeats the words like a parrot, but he doesnʼt understand; he is hardly a Christian. You are a mestizo, an organist, you answer in Latin. The mass will be better with you ─ the priest told him on the eve of a big festivity.

━ Quemado yo padre^*1. Mi iglesia dentro de mi pecho, quemado. ¿Cómo voy a cantar? La Gertrudis igual que ángel canta ─ el sacristán contesta.

━ I have been destroyed by the fire^*1, Father. My church, inside my chest, has been destroyed by the fire. How can I sing? Gertrudis, as an angel she sings ─ answers the mestizo sexton.

━ La Gertrudis no piensa en Dios; canta triste, sí, porque es deforme.

━ Gertrudis does not think about God; she sings sad, indeed, because she is malformed.

━ Padrecito, tú no entiendes el alma de indios. La Gertrudis, aunque no conociendo a Dios, de Dios es. ¿Quién, si no, le dio esa voz que limpia el pecado? Consuela al triste, hace pensar al alegre; quita de la sangre cualquier suciedad.

━ Dear Father, you do not understand the indiansʼ soul. Gertrude, although not knowing God, belongs to God. Who, if not, gave her such a voice that cleanses sin? It comforts the sad, leads the happy to think; it removes any filthiness from the blood.

━ Bueno, terco. No puedo obligarte. Esa «Kurku»^*2 tiene algo, algo extraño, duele.

━ Well, stubborn. I can not force you. That «Kurku»^*2 has something, something strange, it hurts.

━ El Dios, pues, padrecito. Ella ha sufrido entre los señores^*3. Dios de los señores no es igual. Hace sufrir sin consuelo.

...Ha llegado amarillo, rotoso, sin chullu^*4 siquiera. Ha regresado igual de su ropa, pero en su ojo había Dios.

━ It is actually the God, dear Father. She has suffered among the lords^*3. The God of the lords is not the same. It makes you suffer with no consolation.

...He arrived yellow, broken, without even wearing the chullu^*4. He had his clothes in a similar [damaged] way.But there was God in his eye.

━ ¿Oué Dios? ¿Cómo sabes?

━ What God? How do you know that?

━ Dios es esperanza. Dios alegría. Dios ánimo. Llegó «unpu»^*5, enjuermo, agachadito. Salió tieso, juirme, águila. Era mozo no más. Dios hay aquí, en Lahuaymarca. De San Pedro se ha ido, creo para siempre...

━ God is hope. God joy. God encourage. He arrived "Unpu"^*5, sick, squatting. He came out stiff, juirme, eagle. He was young no more. God is here, in Lahuaymarca. De San Pedro is gone, I think forever...

━ Tú tampoco eres cristiano verdadero, hijo. Tantos años de sacristán! Y piensas como brujo. Dios está en todas partes, en todas partes.

━ Youʼre not a true Christian either, son. So many years as sacristan! And you think like a witch. God is everywhere, everywhere.

El viejo sacristán de San Pedro movía negativamente la cabeza.

The old sexton of San Pedro shook his head negatively.

━ ¿Había Dios en el pecho de los que rompieron el cuerpo del inocente maestro Bellido? ¿Dios está en el cuerpo de los inginieros que están matando «La Esmeralda»? ¿De señor autoridad que quitó a sus dueños ese maizal donde jugaba la Virgen con su Hijito, cada cosecha?
     No me hagas llorar, padrecito. Yo también como muerto ando. Don Demetrio tiene Dios, en la «Kurku» está Dios, cantando; en don Bruno pelea Dios con el demonio; para mí no hay consuelo, de nadies.

━ Was there God in the chest of those who broke the body of the innocent teacher Bellido? Is God in the body of the engineers who are killing «La Esmeralda” mine? Is He in the body of the authority who took away from its owners that cornfield where, each harvest. the Virgin used to play with her Little Son?
     Donʼt make me cry, dear Father. I am as a dead man, as well. Don Demetrio has God, God is singing in the «Kurku»; God fights with the devil in Don Bruno; for me there is no consolation, from nobodies.

José María Arguedas
Todas las sangres

José María Arguedas
All the bloods