Sentences with phrase «did justify slavery»

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I don't know how a belief system that is founded on the principle of loving others — not just saying it, but actually doing that — can justify enslaving or supporting slavery.

I don't want to be the type of person that justifies slavery with something like what Jesus teaches or what science shows us.

how do you justify the approval of slavery in the bible?

when the bible supports slavery in chapter after chapter, how do you justify that?

Arkes agrees, but that's precisely the point of his book, which Prof. Smolin simply does not get: when racists appeal to natural law to justify slavery and white supremacy they employ principles that undercut their own rights.

And what do you know, the Bible condones slavery so this Book was once again used to justify it.

And the religious will always hide behind the bible to justify their bigotry... like they did to justify slavery and segregation.

Then there is the school of Christianity characterized by Quakers, Congregationalists, and others, who understood that slavery was a terrible evil and didn't pretend to justify it with their religion.

@Rainer Braendlein you know those verses out of context, you can do that with the Bible too and that's why the Bible has been used to justify slavery, white supremacy, conquest after conquest, and the white man's burden in Africa

His attempts to justify slavery are nonsensical and take the typical dishonest approach of equating slavery with modern day employment or indentured servitude (glossing over verses that permit «owners» to beat their slaves so long as they do not die immediately).

However, the fact that it has some quality principles does not outweigh the violence, the inc est and the slavery that is justified.

If the USA had democratically voted to retain slavery (as it could easily have done) that would not justify the continuation of slavery.

And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

The rationale and reasons given for slavery - were construed so that the masters could justify what they were doing and gave structure to an institution that was for making money.

Does it mean the Aristotelian concept of «treating equals equally» (an understanding once used to justify slavery and the subjugation of woman?