The woozy but pragmatic Cathy Anne also tells Che not to trust any poll which shows Democrat and not - molester (that we know of) Doug Jones with a chance, citing people's unwillingness to confess to voting for «the pedophile
who likes slavery» to a stranger on the phone.
Not exact matches
In its release describing the initiative, the Attorney General's office cited examples of pimps and sex trafficking rings
who posted pictures of minors on websites
like Backpage and Craigslist, describing the practice as «modern day
slavery.»
if you're from the US
like i am, please move far, far away so those
who believe in the first amendment and support all people the freedom to believe and live as they choose so we can focus on real issues
like the economy, education, and ending oppression /
slavery throughout the world.
Supposedly, all these Christians from history, including some
like Augustine
who definitely didn't oppose
slavery, all were listening to Jesus too, right?
The last time we mentioned that if Joseph had never been sold into
slavery, he would have never been in a position to become what he became.And the wily atheist — the one
who admits, btw, that even he might be willing to suffer for the sake of something,
like being part of the 60 million
who....
Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders
like St. Patrick
who openly opposed
slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.
Is the issue of
slavery any different than the fact that many of you take pleasure and entertainment from people
like Junior Seau
who dazzled you on the field?
«It's inspiring to see a generation so engaged and looking out of themselves and looking at things
like slavery and actually committing to making people aware of it - and it's only the beginning,» said Jolie,
who declined to give her last name, a conference volunteer
who traveled from Australia to be a part of the Passion.
We were the ones
who were finally
like, «Hey, you know
slavery's crazy, right?
The fact is, most of the defenses of American
slavery were written by clergy
who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages
like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.
observer «The Bible supports:» «
slavery» = > No, the Bible begins to reign in the abuse of slaves as was common and remind the Hebrew to never forget what it felt
like for 430 years as oppressed slaves under Egypt; «I am the Lord your God
who set you free from the
slavery of Egypt».
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!».
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like within Islamic laws Before Islam the girls - child were buried alive After Islam no girls - child were buried alive Before Islam no laws or guidance to people After Islam established the laws or guidance to people (sharia) Before Islam tribes killing each others After Islam they became brothers Before Islam there was no education After Islam became must and first word came to Muhammad from the angle was (read) Before Islam no scientific study After Islam seculars in chemistry and math the no. 1234 are Arabic and innovated the ZERO Before Islam they were tribes After Islam became empire from Spain to china And More.......
«The same Bible that Christians
who weren't following what it actually said that used it to justify their wicked behaviour in an area
like slavery»
The same Bible that Christians
who weren't following what it actually said that used it to justify their wicked behaviour in an area
like slavery, was also used by Martin Luther King, JR to set oppressed Americans free.
And
like the mistaken believers
who quoted their Bibles 150 years ago to «prove»
slavery was God's will, so people quote the Bible to «prove» God is against gay people.
Sheila, people
like you
who condone s.e.x.ism, genocide, slaughter,
slavery and lies are just flies to me.
It is
like saying anyone
who serves gra pes has a disorder because under
slavery their master were successfully able to force them to serve gra pes.
Like the British
who turned a blind eye to
slavery in the name of consumerism, tens of millions of Americans seem content to tune out the human suffering tied to how we spend our money, as long as they get what they want.
It's
like in the days of
slavery: if you went to a cotton plantation and asked the slaves and slaveowners
who they thought made better slaveowners and better slaves, you would EXPECT them to say, «White people are better slave owners and Africans make better slaves.»
Just
like Moses, he comes as the leader
who is going to lead us out of the
slavery to sin, into the promised land of a new relationship with the Father.
I would
like to see studies that focussed on African Americans
who are multigenerational «Jack and Jill» members, although that would perhaps not completely override potential epigenetic effects of hundreds of years of
slavery and Jim Crow.
Some abolitionist works
like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint
slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians,
who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.
mmm... a protagonist
who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts
like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film -
slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction
Effectively shot by McQueen's longtime cinematographer Sean Bobbitt on several real Louisiana plantations, «12 Years» explores a number of odd corners of the
slavery situation,
like the slave Mistress Shaw (Alfre Woodard)
who is married to the plantation owner and serves an elaborate tea on Sunday mornings.
In a terrible scene where Black families are showcased
like cattle, based on their strength and health before being sold into
slavery, Paul Giamatti makes a brief but immensely powerful impression as a slaver trader,
who has no qualms about pulling families apart.
And then there are a few jarring scenes involving Pitt's character
who descends bearded and Jesus -
like, deus ex machina to save the day — but not before he debates the injustice of
slavery with the nasty plantation owner.
More than just a story of the horrors of
slavery, this is the story of a man
who knew a better life — he abided the law, owned a house, had a family, and was a respected part of his Saratoga, New York community — and yet, down in the bowels of the hellish South, was stripped of his humanity
like tattered clothes from his back.
They should become incensed about
slavery, suffrage, and imperialism, just
like the movers and shakers of history,
who were infuriated enough at societal injustice to change the rules.
There are those
who say the sound my country makes at night, the sound I hear when flying, the sound my nation exhales as it sleeps, is the sound of prayer, the sound of Jesus Christ arising from the basalt in the Rockies, splitting hearts of granite as he shakes off chains of time and is reborn, and there are those
who claim the sound my nation makes at night is the metallic hiss of money in the forge or the sound of
slavery's jism misspent in anger and assimilation, or that the sound my nation makes is the sizzle of cosmetic simulation, the sound the cutting edge of surgical removal makes, the sound of History slipping into coma, cosmic silence, almost total, through which, in my dream of flying, I perceive a hopeful distant note — the sound my country makes — a note so confirming and annunciatory that it seems to bend into itself, bend into its own impending future
like an announcing angel comin» round the mountain, bend the way a shadow bends, conforming to the curvature of Earth, wailing gently through the night.
«America Is Hard to See,» the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building, showcased art by Castle, Bill Traylor (
who was born into
slavery in Alabama and began making art at age 85), and Horace Pippin (one of the first self - taught African American painters to attract the attention of major museums
like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney), but was also, in Edlin's view, «something of a missed opportunity,» considering the overall ratio of those few works to the entire installation.
Mining sites
like eBay for 19th - and 20th - century photo portraits of everyday African Americans, Jefferson gives their forgotten sitters a shot at immortality by painting their formal portraits, emphasizing the importance of Sunday finery to people
who toiled in the service industry six days a week during and after the days of
slavery.
The list is weighty because it includes successful artists from all backgrounds,
like Marina Abramovic,
who has herself been accused of exploitation more than once — flashpoint artists
like Kara Walker,
who's been both celebrated and denounced for her nuanced caricatures of
slavery — and establishment white guys
like Ed Ruscha
who paints tasteful ephemeral phrases on gradients.
If you see a danger approaching, one that requires considerable effort from everyone to address — what kind of solution is acceptable to people
like Lionell,
who consider group action to be «
slavery»?