Sentences with phrase «defend slavery»

These monuments, then, not only represented reverence for soldiers who fought in a war to defend slavery, they also made a very pointed statement about the rule of white supremacy: All who enter the courthouse are subject to the laws of white men.

Both sides thought they knew God's will in this matter, and both sides quoted God's Word, either to defend slavery or to condemn it.

As politicians, publishers, and educators stepped forward to defend slavery so too did clergymen in the South.

Each group felt that it had found more light yet in God's Word either to defend slavery or to condemn it.

As a matter of fact, many in the South began to defend slavery as a positive good for American society.

My family was owned by Methodists who lost everything trying to defend slavery.

If we did not use reason when reading and interpreting Scripture, people would still use Scripture to defend slavery.

It was very easy for these Christians to defend slavery from the Bible (both the Old and New Testaments).

Do nt» forget that the Soutthern Baptists formed in order to defend slavery and racism.

Then the Bible was used to defend slavery.

The result was a new consensus that repents of and rejects the practice of slavery and any biblical interpretation that tries to defend slavery.

Here's a link that explains how religion was used to defend slavery in this country.

There was a time when Christ following Bible believers defended slavery with the Bible (no where does it say not to own slaves, and in fact, Paul even provides some moral guidelines for masters as well as slaves, urging them to be obedient.

But slavery itself long predates race slavery: the very Greeks and Romans whom I suspect both Professor Arkes and I admire owned slaves and defended slavery, even when the slaves were people of their own race.

Not exact matches

If so I wud defend ur kind of slavery to de hilt.

In any case, * I * don't need defend the Bible on this — I'm sure the author can explain to us how a correct translation of the OT actually * condemns * slavery.

Arkes agrees, precisely, that slavery and abortion can be defended in the «discourse» of natural rights; what he is concerned to assert is that the understanding of that discourse is destroyed by such defense — in our time as well as in Lincoln's.

Thus while Jesuits fought for the rights of slaves and defended converted native communities, Spanish and Portuguese authorities supported slavery wholeheartedly — and armies are stronger than friars,

The social principles of Christianity justified the slavery of Antiquity, glorified the serfdom of the Middle Ages and equally know, when necessary, how to defend the oppression of the proletariat, although they make a pitiful face over it.

The second point is that you are a hypocrite in that you would most certainly not defend the practice of slavery if you yourself were a slave.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

Slavery in the United States was supported by Christians who saw it as God's will, defending it with scripture and opposed by Christians who saw it as not God's will attacking it with scripture.

Peter, before I address your positions defending a strong central government and your position that slavery alone is the cause of the war, allow me this analogy: The issue at hand is similar to a walnut.

Oh the same WLC that defended Yahweh endorsed child slavery or murder with the stupid idea that it's just sending them early to heaven.

Southern Baptists, on the other hand, defended the institution of slavery and attacked the Northern abolitionists.

The Churches could easily stand against slavery in the days when nobody defended it, but now that it was the basis of the Southern economic empire what would they do?

According to this Lost Cause mythology, the South went to war to defend states» rights, slavery was essentially a benevolent institution that imparted Christianity to African «savages,» -LSB-...].

The free and easy life of the Woodcutter in the bush, the laws made to soften the harsh reality of slavery, the vote to defend St. George's Caye; all these things molded the early Belizean character and confirmed the air of independence of mind.

The history exhibitions include «Slavery and Freedom» (covering the period up to Reconstruction); «Defining Freedom, Defending Freedom» (the segregation era, from post-reconstruction through the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act); and «A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond.»