Sentences with phrase «for slavery»

Where is the line of volunteers for slavery in these churches?

Their justification for slavery is either financial or religious based.

Did someone REALLY look up all the scriptures about slaves and then say we should get slavery back in the country but they are not for slavery?

As for slavery, that's tricky, because from what I can tell slavery was different from the way it ended up.

And no wonder: the statutes that made slavery legal were state, not federal statutes, and thus do not render the federal government liable for slavery.

Otherwise, the majority could vote for slavery, or the seizure of the houses, say, of any group or person that they didn't like.

A state declaring certain humans fit for slavery — not OK.

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.

For that reason, discussion of reparations for slavery touches on a number of deeper issues.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

The problem of a politically anachronistic church is compounded by the fact that Christianity avoided the blame for slavery and colonialism by turning the gospel into an entrepreneurial work of trading salvation with souls.

Like when christians had tolerance for slavery?

Obviously you aren't doing anything in leviticus because the NT testement has already said that the OT is null because jesus came, but there's still a lot of advocacy for slavery and sale of your children, not to mention how a woman should act and how a man should act.

«All men created equal» yet it took almost 100 years for slavery to be abolished and a lot of those intelligent founding fathers you think so highly of were slave owners.

And just think about this: Current estimates say that about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic for slavery from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Current estimates say that about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic for slavery from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

In fact, similar arguments abound — BP's justification for developing Canadian tar sands was the same as that of British politicians who argued for slavery — «otherwise, the international competition will take over / those resources are going to be developed anyway.»

-- Christians were responsible for slavery in the US — and this is supported biblically (in Leviticus) as theologically sound, even if immoral to our contemporary thinking.

Christians could invoke biblical justifications for slavery just as easily as they could proclaim that all men are created equal.

Israel pined for their slavery in Egypt again because at least there they had leeks and onions.

Speaking in Bristol last night, the Rev Jackson criticised Britain's refusal to formally apologise for slavery.

«l wanted to work with cotton for its connotations with the healing process, not for the slavery associations,» he says.»

The school's letter thanked Brown - Berry for bringing the matter to their attention and said the purpose of the homework was not to have students argue that there are any good reasons for slavery.

Your founder of your religion owned slaves himself.Mormons were very much for slavery like other southern christians.

nope... thing is... those who used the Bible for slavery had no support from the Bible, except only with misinterpretation and misrepresentation

Purchasing an expensive home is signing up for slavery for the next 30 years.

An insane 100 percent tax rate would surely return the country to medieval - era feudalism, which is just another name for slavery.

Women can be property of men, and blacks are the cursed race of Ham destined for slavery.

-- Joseph Smith as he discussed his disdain for slavery.

The Bible outlines the proper guidelines for slavery.

«In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.»

Remember the original Texans stole land from Mexico so they could have a place for slavery.

We need to convert the American and European models of democracy into God's democracy to make them accountable for slavery, colonialism and the ravages of capitalism.

You know my ignorant christian zealot... slavery used to be o.k, women's rights were squashed, etc.... all because the bible said it was o.k. Should we go back and reinstate laws for slavery...?

Among his supporters, some wondered whether a Christian minister had any business raising money to buy rifles for slavery opponents in Kansas.

The system was rigged to be a meritocracy so there would be a basis for slavery, versus living, loving, and serving each other unconditionally.

The popularity of debunking the OT based on the rules for slavery is particularly annoying because it disregards the context.

The same goes for slavery.

Yet there is no clear focusing on any social system as good or evil, a fact which made it possible for slavery to go unchallenged by Christians for many centuries.

When Othello was first performed in 1603 or 1604, it was rare for slavery to be seen as an institution exclusively imposed by Europeans and Arabs upon black Africans, but this would soon change.

It's called learning instead of just reading and coming up with your own interpretations (i.e. «the Bible vouches for slavery») No my dear, read it in it's historical context.

Their chosen quote, and I hope you can read it with as much incredulous merriment as I did, «When the intellectual authors of the modern right created its doctrines in the 1950s, they drew on nineteenth - century political thought, borrowing explicitly from the great apologists for slavery, above all, the intellectually fierce South Carolinian John C. Calhoun.»