Sentences with phrase «about the slavery of»

When Moses first encounters God on the mountain, he wants to know why God has waited 400 years to do anything about the slavery of his people.

The play spoke the truth about the slavery of sin.

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Although thousands of people have signed a petition to have shoemaker Adidas drop rapper Kanye West over his slavery comments, the German firm says it hasn't had any internal conversations about ending the partnership.

He added, «When you hear about slavery for 400 years... like, you was there for 400 years and it's all of y» all?!

What it's about: Set adjacent to the story of Jesus, a Jewish prince named Judah is sent to slavery by a Roman friend, regains his freedom, and plots revenge.

After Kanye West's comments about slavery, the CEO of Adidas said «there clearly are some comments we don't support.»

Marr also mischaracterizes Daniel Webster, who opposed slavery and opposed its extension into the territories but was willing to make political compromises about slavery to preserve the Union; who fully expected slavery to gradually disappear in the Southern states; who supported plans for the colonization of freedmen outside the United States; and who in general held views on the subject that were strikingly similar to those of his follower and ardent admirer, Abraham Lincoln.

One of the most challenging points to get across about this issue in general is that a larger proportion of the exploitation resides inside forced manual labor, rather than in sex slavery.

hey chut — we don't care how many comedians may know the cardinal direction of mecca while on stage as they shuffle for a laugh - something about your holy book espousing slavery or death to non-believers is really more the point of contention.

And that «minority of die - hard idealists» whom Marr praises for bringing about the end of slavery?

@ND Murff You are incorrect about the type of slavery.

He made certain that you people hated gays, but said nothing whatsoever about the criminality of slavery.

Dean Hall and others who urge elimination of any symbols relating to the Confederacy, however, propose their case is a simple moral argument about slavery.

I would constantly bring to the forefront that significantly small percentage of biblical passages (the majority within the framework of Levitical Law) that speak about slavery, selling of daughters, and God commanding the destruction of various tribes.

@Know - what: Slavery and abuse of women were common and norm in ALL pagan world until Christian missionaries made fuss about it.

The laws of Exodus, Deuteronomy, etc. came about at a time when God's people had been freed from slavery in Egypt.

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

Now if the Bible could be so wrong about a clear ethical failure of slavery, what makes anyone think it has anything to say about sexual orientation or women's rights?

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

Once you free yourself of the mental slavery of the god concept, you too will hear statements about «the bible being vetted and proven true» and either laugh or shake your head in sadness and disbelief for your fellow man.

Historical events — a bloody Civil War — forced us to look more closely at how exactly the Bible talks not only about slavery but the biblical meaning and value of a human being.

I suspect a big reason for this is that reading the household codes in their entirety puts us in the awkward position of confronting the parts about slavery.

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

2) I think you are deeply mistaken about the end of slavery.

CNN's Brooke Baldwin talks to Rafael Romo about a religious cult whose members were believed to be victims of sex slavery.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

In this way of thinking, the Framers had not resolved but had only postponed the question of slavery, and Lincoln's sense that the time had come to move, however cautiously, toward a resolution had about it a force of obligation that he did not hesitate to call sacred.

It is clear that this is precisely what Paul's statement is about; but because he was expressing a vision of reality that he himself was unable to spell out in a practical application to his own culture, we also have continued to stumble around in the slavery of the old law regarding relationships, catching the vision in some areas — in theory, at least — and ignoring it in others.

Paul makes it clear what he means: slavery to Christ is about exclusive ownershipâ $» Christ is master / lord (kurios is the simple word for master - owner of a slave).

I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name — modern slavery.»

Much of of the Christian bible is no longer followed, including most of Leviticus and everything about slavery.

Michael Fassbender, who portrays the most sadistic of Northup's three masters in the film, has little patience for the oft - heard notion that it is time for America to forget about its horrific history with slavery.

Dindac - If you think about it, all of us are «slaves» of something... We are «slaves» of the country we live in, we are obligated to accomplish the laws of the land... We are «slaves» of our employer... If we don't comply with their policy, then we can be fired... It that a bad «slavery»?

For the British, it was the actual experience of slavery in some of its most brutal forms in the West Indies that precipitated thinking hard about slavery, which then precipitated biblical and theological arguments against it, which then led to political action.»

If you're at all interested in pop culture, you've probably been hearing a lot of buzz about Steve McQueen's slavery epic, 12 Years a Slave.

One of the misconceptions about New World slavery that Stark is eager to correct is the role of the Catholic Church and Catholic teaching.

Slavery would never have been abolished in this or any other country if there had not first been a great deal of talk about it.

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The Israelites had just come out of harsh slavery in Egypt and were about to posses the land.

Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?

Taking a fresh look at the book of Exodus made Salvation Army officer Danielle Strickland rethink what the Bible says about slavery, oppression and fr... More

So to say that the hierarchal structures presented in these passages are divinely instituted and inherently holy, raises some troubling questions about God's view of slavery.

Jesus keeps it simple plus we can avoid judgments and speculation about biblical accounts of war, slavery etc. that related to a specific nomadic tribal people or at a minimum require taking into account a people, time and place some say never existed.

• I came across Chamfort's observation about slavery and freedom in The Hall of Uselessness, a wonderful collection of essays by Simon Leys, the pen name of scholar and literary critic Pierre Ryckmans.

And yes, Bill P, if the «End Religions» of the world were more educated about things like «voluntary servitude» as a synonym for «slavery» in the Bible, they might understand the library of ancient texts that they continue to deride.

They segregate churches before slavery and till segregated today and an idiot talk about who wouldnt stand for the pledge of alegence.

In an interview in the Women «s Review of Books (March 1988), Morrison talks about the necessity of black people sharing the story of slavery rather than «rushing away... because it is painful to dwell there.»

We're talking about talking serpents, the parting of bodies of water with the wave of a hand, an impossible Ark, a vengeful hate - filled man - made god, rising from the dead, killing people who work on sunday or selling our daughters into slavery.

really, Salem witch hunts, Baptist views on slavery, cover - ups of paedophiles, what the hades are you talking about, try and make some sense for a change.