Sentences with phrase «slavery used»

The legal and the ethical are not always synonymous, of course — slavery used to be legal - but knowing the law is a good place to start.

As mentioned before, slavery used to be legal — I guess if it still was you'd be all over that owning a slave thing and telling the rest of us not to tell you what to do because owning a slave is your «right,» to hell with the rights of the slave?

Literal human ownership of other human beings in the form of slavery used to be widely accepted and practiced in the civilized world.

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...?

That text you shared, is it teaching about slavery or is slavery used as an example?

Slavery used to exist, so did the black plague.

Not exact matches

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Nine - year - old Vivienne Harr used a lemonade stand to raise more than $ 100,000 to support efforts to eliminate child slavery around the world.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

Actor Patrick Stewart (R) and 9 - year - old Vivenne Harr (C), who uses proceeds from her lemonade stand to fight slavery, ring the opening bell as NYSE Executive Vice President and Head of Global Listings Scott Cutler and and Boston police officer Cheryl Fiandaca (L) look on during the Twitter Inc..

It has been used to justify war, slavery, se.xism, racism, ho.mophobia, mutilations, intolerance, and oppression of minorities.

We should know that the bible was used to promote slavery and to promote why black and white men and women should not marry.

THE SLAVERY LAW is the same used for murder / manslaughter now.

They should know ppl used the bible to condone racism and slavery.

Just as we look back on Christians who used Scripture to justify slavery and male supremacy as misinformed, history will once again show that conservative Christians inappropriately applied Scripture to shame and degrade gays and lesbians.

It is the ultimate irony to listen to black / hispanic religious leaders use «the Bible» to justify discrimination, the same book that was used to justify slavery and ban intraracial marriage.

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.

Make your fight stand on it own and stop trying to use the experiment of 400 plus years of slavery and discrimination as part of your justification.

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

Actually, I'm very nice, but I refuse to have respect for ANYONE that uses religion to justify murder and subjected a gender to point of slavery.

Here's a link that explains how religion was used to defend slavery in this country.

After slavery Christian terrorist using the name Ku Klux Klan burned crosses and lynched Black people and other people of color for eighty years or more.

Also slavery was justified using the Bible as its defense.

Slavery was justified using the bible.

Funny how these same religious used their religion to back SLAVERY,..

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.

I have seen Christianity used to justify genocide, oppression, slavery, wars, jihad, violence, revenge, inquisition, stifling of art and invention and progress.

They allowed the religious populace to use their bible to enforce slavery and consider women and minorities as less than human.

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

Was it the hundred years we condoned slavery and used other humans like cattle?

We could also use the bible to justify slavery.

And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived of their liberty or their other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»

Then the Bible was used to defend slavery.

Make the choice to not buy from companies that use slavery in their supply chain.

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

*** See also, Christ and the Greco Roman Household Codes, which shows how the very same passages used to support slavery are still used today to support gender hierarchy.

If you are arguing that the world must be perfect in order to stop adoption, you are using the same argument that a slaveowner would have had in the South in the early 1800s — that slavery could not be stopped until no one went hungry.

it used to be we strived to do better, that is why we ended slavery, ended segrigation, created Social Security, built roads, public schools, ended child labor, created FEMA, the National Weather Service, FDA, FFA, the Military and all the other programs that give us safe schools, roads, public buildings, homes, food, water and products.

For example, North Carolina used the death penalty to assist with the maintenance of slavery; slave - stealing and inciting slaves to insurrection were capital crimes.

It was even used in the U.S. as justification for slavery and for the genocide of the Native Americans.

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

Christians used to use the bible and their faith to support slavery.

Paulâ $ ™ s most common self - description throughout his letters is: â $ œI am a slave who is sent by Jesus to non-Jews to communicate the good news that the Kingdom of God has come in Jesus.â $ English readers of the Bible find it easy to overlook this important aspect of Paulâ $ ™ s self - understanding, since the 190 different Greek terms used for slavery in the New Testament are sanitized to â $ œservant.â $ This is not a very appropriate translation, since in Paulâ $ ™ s day 1 / 3rd of the population of the Roman empire were masters who owned slaves, 1 / 3rd of the people were slaves, and 1 / 3rd were former slaves.

you would learn christians used the bible to justify slavery and segregation and jim crow.

Black churches exist because lacks were forced away from the white churches doing slavery and segregation but that is a prime example of how religion has been used to control the masses.

If there is a «wrong» kind of Christian it is the one who uses the Bible as an excuse or to justify their actions (war, slavery, discrimination, oppression, suppression, or condemnation) and it is the one who ignores the preaching of Jesus (tolerance, love, forgiveness, inclusion) and turns instead to a handful of lines in the Old Testament more in keeping with how they prefer to act.

The kind of action from social awareness that is demanded by perfect love is such as must admit the tragic reality that there are people who are genuinely intent upon using their freedom to destroy the freedom of others, and that, under certain circumstances, love itself may dictate that «It is better that many should die prematurely than that nearly all men should live in a permanent state of hostility or slavery» (MVG 173).

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

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

And in some cases, the use of child slavery may actually be getting worse.