The result was Cane River, a novel based on the lives of four generations of colored Creole
slave women in Louisiana, from whom she is descended.
A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th - century
slave woman in South Africa.
Not exact matches
The longest serving
woman in the Assembly is Lesser
Slave Lake PC MLA Pearl Calahasen, who was first elected
in 1989 and has been acclaimed as her party's candidate
in the next election.
Would these be the same sociologists and other pc
slaves that think surgery for «men trapped
in womens bodies» is normal acceptable behavior?
It is as repressive as telling a
woman to «stay
in her place» or a telling a
slave to remain faithful to his master and not fight for his freedom.
the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence
in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around
in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their
woman in their household prisons to be abused
slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men,
woman, children, and babies.
In this theology gay and lesbian Christians have the same status earlier attributed to
slaves and currently attributed to
women, the status of those excluded from the traditional church.
Then he also started receiving regular communications from God telling him to kill pagens, smite unbeilevers, take no prisoners, beat your wife if she steps out of line, be a martyr by fighting for Allah and receive 72 virgins
in a beautiful garden, and my favorite... Allah said that Muhammed alone could have access to any
woman he desired except wives of other Muslims —
slave girls, prisoners, widows, NIECES, daughters, you name it, all fair game for the Prophet of Allah.
What good are morals if the one giving them supports morals that most people consider to be awful like slavery and discrimination against
women, gays and the handicapped, as well as beating children and
slaves without punishment
in some cases?
Women,
slaves, gays, and members of more than one of those groups are all too aware of their lesser standings
in Jesusland and according to supposedly Jesus - sanctioned text.Jesus was a mean beast, if you weren't part of his special team.
It's not very funny
in the day and age where
women are held as sex
slaves and trafficked all over the place.
After being
in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church
in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one
woman abandoning her family to become a sex
slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.
I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally —
in the relationships between
slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and
women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted
in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters
in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that
slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with
women he called «co-workers.»
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for
slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian
women teaching
in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian
women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant
in one moment, but important enough to display
in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
They have championed freeing the
slaves in the South as well as
women suffrage whereas atheism has given us champions of oppresion like Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung... among others
In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eye
In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic
slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black
women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures
in our voices and through our eye
in our voices and through our eyes.
I'd read Romans and mourn the
women, the wives submitting as
slaves in a culture that ignored them, dismissed their talk as gossip, distrusted their authority.
They took
in abandoned children and raised them as their own; they treated
women and
slaves better than anyone else; they cared for the sick during plagues when no one else would.
During a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Winslow explained that
in the past, Mexican drug cartels routinely kidnapped
women and young girls — after murdering their husbands and fathers — and forced them into
slave labor on giant marijuana farms.
If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks,
slaves and free, men and
women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are
in hell.
I believe, with every ounce of my being, that patriarchy is a manifestation of a fallen, broken world and that a new creation
in which «there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female,
slave nor free, for all are one
in Christ Jesus» began at the resurrection, an event first announced to the world by
women.
The customary term for this kind of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into Christian speech by St. Paul
in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a
slave and one by a free
woman.
In the second century, the pagan Celsus criticized Christianity, saying it was a religion for «the foolish, dishonorable, and stupid... and only
slaves,
women, and little children.»
8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and
in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your
women and children, and make them
slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»
The verse (
in the Bible) that we latch onto concerning
women is this, «There is neith Greek nor Jew,
slave nor free, male or female.
The Hadith recounts a story of a
slave woman who insulted Muhammad and he was originally angry to learn that she had been killed until given the full story about how she had persisted
in insulting him
in spite of her master's orders for her to stop.
The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while
in their routine: men and
women were at the market, the rich
in their luxurious baths,
slaves at toil.
And how well did that work for
slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues
in the early 1900's,
women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?
There is no lust
in christ but just an infinite source of the love of the spirit that's pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness of our present being.God designed
woman as the companion of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were
slaves of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love of christ.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (
Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an inf
Women should remain silent
in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep
women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an inf
women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying
slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder
women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an inf
women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over
woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes
in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics
in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as
slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray
in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent
in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (
Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an inf
Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Whether he dealt with
women, children, or
slaves, whether the persons
in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.
How else could you justify killing all the males
in a society and taking their
women as
slaves.
What does the Bible say the PUNISHMENT should be if a
slave owner uses a rod to break the arms and legs of an elderly
woman slave and she doesn't die
in a day or so?
As a matter of fact, the sex industry is the most deregulated industry without any rule or much less code of conduct whatsoever which can use anything as commodities, even
women's bodies, just as British
slave merchants did to African people
in the 18th century.
In recent years, transborder sex trafficking has been accelerated, and more and more Thai
women are sent abroad by trafficking organizations: Japan is the country receiving the largest number of trafficked
women from neighboring Asian countries and they are treated as sex
slaves.
All they ever do
in these islam non sense is forcing their rules on people by treating men and
women like
slave.
Paul was remarkable
in his day
in his acceptance of
women as leaders
in his churches and
in respect for
slaves as human beings.
In the 1st Century
slaves,
women and Gentiles were all considered to be morally inferior to the highest natural kind: The male Jew.
It is doubtful that all the theologizing
in Hebrews, the remarks by Paul about
women and
slaves, or the apocalyptic horrors of Revelation will be found to be consistent with Jesus» message.
We belong to the
women who can't read, we belong to the
women who have been stripped of every hope, who are being sold
in slave markets, whose daughters are coming back to them with ripped apart virginity.
In the recent book, Why I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership, which is a collection of essays from prominent scholars, theologians and pastors, more than one writer concluded that the same logic used to defend the «separate but equal» status of slaves, is still in use toda
In the recent book, Why I Changed My Mind about
Women in Leadership, which is a collection of essays from prominent scholars, theologians and pastors, more than one writer concluded that the same logic used to defend the «separate but equal» status of slaves, is still in use toda
in Leadership, which is a collection of essays from prominent scholars, theologians and pastors, more than one writer concluded that the same logic used to defend the «separate but equal» status of
slaves, is still
in use toda
in use today.
But despite the real gains
in social morality that came
in the wake of the abolition of the
slave trade, despite the rise
in the status of
women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation
in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯
in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?
In non-western worlds, in 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouse
In non-western worlds,
in 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouse
in 3rd world countries
women are still used as
slaves, their property of men,
women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children
in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouse
in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouses.
Just as androcentric competition
in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of
women -
slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices
in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.
I think most of the Americans are
in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century,
women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see
in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much
slave of material things...
For the first time the Hebrew
woman slave is permitted to share
in the manumission at the end of six years of service.
And if ye are apprehensive that ye shall not deal fairly with orphans, then, of other
women who seem good
in your eyes, marry but two, or three, or four; and if ye still fear that ye shall not act equitably, then one only; or the
slaves whom ye have acquired: this will make justice on your part easier.
But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded
in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most
women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the
slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his
slave's eye out with a reed pen).
Several of the laws about
women and
slaves, for example, were huge movements toward love
in the days when the law was given and both
women and
slaves were treated like property.
In many ways, the law of Moses gave value and dignity to
women and
slaves that was unprecedented among other people and cultures of that time.