Sentences with phrase «included slavery»

This country is a still a long way from being totally healed from that period of our history that included slavery.

Folks like to talk about how America has been blessed (with riches) because of its religious origins (which included slavery and ethnic cleansing).

I think it safe to assume wickedness included slavery to all sorts of sin including brutalizing slaves as the totality of wickedness is portrayed as bondage to sin.

Your chains are self imposed and imaginary, and your countless rules to live by are extracted from a collection of myths thousands of years old that include slavery and many other detestable acts.

The NAACP picked several favorites for its 44th annual Image Awards, including the slavery revenge feature «Django Unchained,» which stars Jamie Foxx, and African - American remake of «Steel Magnolias,» which included Queen Latifah in its ensemble.

«This is likely one reason that Quakers have a long tradition of defying injustices, including slavery and war; the practice of listening to one's inner voice can create a sense of rightness and the bravery to act.»

The thing of is, Conan Exiles is certainly not the first video game to include slavery.

It includes slavery, servitude, forced labour, debt bondage, and deceptive recruiting for labour or services.

Not exact matches

These codes, which also include The Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Ur Nammu, were royal edicts that dealt with everything from religion to rilitary service to rrade and slavery.

The operation is a part of a wider initiative aimed to prosecute sex slavery that has spanned the United States and other countries including Cambodia, Canada, the Philippines and Thailand.

Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state / church separation.

These men had certain worldviews which they included in their writings — views of the relationships of men and women to each other and in society, views on slavery, political concerns, etc..

Their crimes include mass murder, rape, sexual slavery, and the destruction and illegal appropriation if Christian and other buildings, land and artefacts.

Supposedly, all these Christians from history, including some like Augustine who definitely didn't oppose slavery, all were listening to Jesus too, right?

Although it's a lovely idea, there is nothing to Biblically support Jesus meant love thy neighbor included abolishing slavery.

Persecution may include the following: massacre, rape, torture, mutilation, family division, harassment, imprisonment, slavery, employment discrimination and education discrimination.

Stark invites the reader to «consider whether you believe any of the following statements...» (p. 4) which include: claims of anti-semitism; the Church's suppression of «new Christian Gospels» and of scientists; persecution of pagans; the «blood bath» of the Spanish Inquisition; and the Church's support of slavery.

Does that wisdom in include support for slavery, discriminations and beating children with sticks for discipline like the Bible says?

Many Bible - believing Christians, including those who were uncomfortable with slavery, just weren't buying the abolitionist argument that placed the «spirit of the law» over the «letter of the law.»

Do your morals allow you to believe it is EVER RIGHT to SELL a SIX - year - old girl into SLAVERY (including s3x)?

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

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

The organization found that many countries, including India, have begun taking significant steps to increase penalties for trafficking, slavery and child labor.

Yet you seem to speak as if the truth of the practice of slavery being immoral is universally understood and appeal to the teachings of Christ to support this notion... yet He Himself never condemned it, even including the practice in many of His parables.

The most significant schism was undoubtedly Martin Luther's, but earlier ones had involved the Coptics and Eastern Orthodox; subsequent ones are too numerous to mention, but spectacularly include the Southern versions of the Baptists and Methodists, whose adherents of nearly 2 centuries ago were more persuaded by the Biblical passages endorsing slavery than by the COMPETING Biblical passages commanding love of one's fellow man.

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

In I Corinthians 9.19 he obviously regards it as equivalent to slavery, and elsewhere he includes his labours, both physical and spiritual, among the sufferings which he has experienced for the sake of the gospel (I Cor.

You can find more information about the END IT movement here, including how you can help stop modern day slavery.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

* The Burden of Debt & Being Overpowered by Men: * *************************************************************** There's nothing more enslaving than the burden of debt, and that's why there's a number of dua that Prophet Muhammad taught his followers to removesuch social slavery from his people, including one of my duas: «O Allaah, make what is lawful enough for me, as opposed to what is unlawful, and spare me by Your grace, of need of others.»

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

Some of those alumni were part of Passion's consistent history of generous donations, including $ 3.3 million to end modern slavery in 2012, 20,000 towels and socks for the homeless in 2015, and $ 800,000 for a hospital for women and children in Syria in 2016.

Hell is as fictional as all the other supernatural claptrap, including the dogmatic slavery that is the concept of a fallen mankind.

a) African culture + b) slavery / racial oppression + c) freedom / democracy + d) British / European culture (including Christianity) = American Music

«including, genocide, murder, slavery, r.ape and the complete subjugation of women.»

The Bible is literally infested with contradictions, outdated morality, and open support for the most barbarous acts of cruelty — including, genocide, murder, slavery, ra.pe and the complete subjugation of women.

Anyone who says the whole Bible, including the OT, is the inerrant word of God, is explicitly saying that slavery is OK by God.

Lastly, for now, I think your argument about deliverance from slavery in Egypt needs to include the blood of the Passover.

Next, the Bible is also literally infested with contradictions, outdated morality, and open support for the most barbarous acts of cruelty — including, genocide, murder, slavery, r.ape and the complete subjugation of women.

«Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture,» writes Matthew.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

One definition states that human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude.

Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.»

The Salvation Army was awarded the Government contract in 2011 to provide specialist support for adult victims of modern slavery including safe accommodation, counselling, medical care, translation services and legal counselling.

Any obsessive clinging, including any exclusivist possessiveness toward the land itself as though it were a right and not a gift, leads away from the free life and back to slavery.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The Bible is also literally infested with contradictions, outdated morality, and open support for the most barbarous acts of cruelty — including, genocide, murder, slavery, r.ape and the complete subjugation of women.

I wonder how he would feel if the introduction made mention of the fact that Christianity has been used to support slavery, war, genocide, inquisitions, murders, and all kinds of injustices, including recent wars in Uganda in which children are kidnapped and forced into the «Lord's Liberation Army» by a man claiming to act on behalf of the God of the Bible.

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

The cocoa commodity market is rife with poverty and human rights abuses, including child slavery, as well as environmental impacts such as rainforest destruction.