Sentences with phrase «to justify slavery»

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.

BTW christians were the ones who justified slavery as per the bible, and gave us the kkk and segregation

Previous historians have noted that most cultures justified slavery, while the peculiarity of Christian ones lies in also producing a movement against it.

Science also justified slavery and segregation before Lincoln and the Civil Rights Movement (respectively).

Genuine Christians once justified slavery.

Are you trying to justify slavery in order to rationalize your Biblical beliefs?

Science has never justified slavery.

For the other 1900 years, people and governments used the Bible and religion to justify slavery not abolish it.

Heck, the bible and scripture attributed to Jesus himself were used to justify slavery for hundreds of years!

The bible did justify slavery, something that modern - day society now frowns upon for the most part, but nevertheless, it was «justified» but uttering the phrase «God deems so».

These single, triptych, and five - part pieces delve into the hyper - religious aspect of southern living that was amplified and used to justify slavery as a humane practice.

Not a selected history, but the real story of how Christians were key facilitators of American slavery, how Puritans were chaplains on slave ships, how those who believed in the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible used the Bible as a way to justify the slavery of African - Americans.

Ironic that African American preachers are using the same religious rhetoric to deny gay people their rights, that white slave owners and ministers used to justify slavery and deny African Americans their freedom and rights.

And what of the slaveowners and segregationists who used to latch onto Genesis 9:25 to justify slavery?

Based on some of the posts I have seen since I posted this morning, it affirms my belief that a larger number of the commentors than normal are of the same gap - toothed, knuckle - dragging, mouth - breathing, drooling illiterates who used the same book to justify slavery, subjugation of women, etc. that I mentioned earlier.

People used the Bible to justify slavery («Slaves be subservient to your masters») and the oppression of women («Wives be subservient to your husbands») and many other crimes.

But the truth is, the slave owners and slave merchants had far more direct support from the Bible than did the abolitionists, and used the Bible to justify slavery — quite successfully in fact.

We could also use the bible to justify slavery.

[Perhaps the strongest argument against Piper's hermeneutical approach to the New Testament household codes is the fact that the very same hermeneutic has been applied to these passages to justify slavery.

There are believers on here (see Theo) who use their religion to justify slavery and the Holocaust.

Christian hstory is full of war, murder, terrorism, and most recently it fired the passions of the Oklahoma bomber, many abortion clinic terrorists, justified slavery and segregation, shall we close all Christian churches close to the site of the Oklahoma City bombing, or near abortion clinics, or near any African American who rightfully claims the church helped keep his race from participating fully in society?

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

At one point, we used the Bible to justify slavery.

When the Bible was used to justify slavery and then it was outlawed, people said «Oh, well the Bible just got misinterpreted.

as much as policits has playedin crafting the bible ie in the council of nicea and as much as it has been used as a tool of subjugation (ie re the jews and justifying slavery) you can actually say, with a str8 face, that the bible is key to safeguarding our freedoms as a nation?

@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

The elders note that Bible verses have been used to justify slavery and that few conservative evangelicals abide by verses requiring women to cover their heads...

It may have been later proved to be pseudo-science, but science was used to justify slavery and other horrilbe things, too.

The Bible has been used to justify slavery, genocide, apartheid, the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust.

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).

It's hard to justify slavery, r@pe, murdering children, treating women as a lower species and the capital crime of eating shellfish.

Don't they realize the same religion was used to justify slavery?

«Benevolent intentions have been used with sincerity at one time or another to justify slavery, to give religious sanction to white supremacy and the continuance of imperialism, to prevent the poor from having education or the suffrage, or to discourage land reform or the organization of labor.

A lot of those things haning under bridges are black people who were lynched by bigoted holy rollers who used their version of the «holy bible» to justify slavery.

Derived from a romanticized Middle Ages in the novels of Sir Walter Scott and others, it folded into the Christian paternalism that was used to justify slavery.