Slavery in the NT is a lot different than what we had
Posted By: sbMT on 2009-05-05
In Reply to: Well, you got me there - AnudderMT
People were in slavery to pay off debts, etc., not forced. When they completed the term that was agreed upon, the person they were enslaved to was required to give them enough in terms of money, livestock, etc., for them to begin a life elsewhere. Hardly the slavery we had here.
You can't pick and choose things out of the Bible without knowing in what context to use them. There are some things talked about in the Bible that were specific to that era, yes, but there were other things that are laws from God that are to be upheld forever. When God calls something an abomination, that doesn't mean "for now".
I love how we are always told that we can't impose our "version of religion" on others, but the world can impose their versions of living on us.
I guess to make it fair when they reinstate the draft or the "voluntary (but really mandatory) community service training" Christians should be exempt so the world can't impose their ways of warfare on us.
I sure hope you're okay with sharia because at the rate the Islamics are growing, we will soon all be stuck living under it.
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Slavery used to be legal. Does that mean it's a RIGHT?
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Not saying slavery didn't happen....
Just saying since Obama AIN'T racist and all, don't you think it's about time you got over it? My ancestors were used as slaves as well and I ain't standing around expecting handouts, freebies, "entitlement" and throwing a pity party for myself every day. That's all Obama wants. He's no more trying to help the poor than a stray dog in a ditch.
He's trying to help himself.
Need to get that African slavery thing correct
Native Americans and free slaves also held slaves. Only 8% of all American families in the south had slaves. I get so sick and tired of all the apologies for things most people in this country know very little about. Was slavery wrong? Absolutely! But it has gone back since the beginning of man. My ancestors, who are Irish by the way, were also brought here as slave and were beaten, starved, raped, impregnated, you name it, just like the blacks. Do you hear history and present going on and on about that, demanding they be apologized to, compensated somehow, and do they feel entitled? No they don't! They got on with it.
Out of twelve million blacks shipped to the Americas (not America) between the 16th and 19th centuries, ONLY 5.4% of those were brought to the United States. The others were taken to predominantly black countries and sold as slaves in predominantly black countries. MOST of them went to Brazil.
What about the white slaves? Too bad we're so stuck on black slavery, we forgot about them. OVER half of all white immigrants to the colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries were Irish, Scottish, English, and Germans, and they horribly mistreated and abused as well. So while you're so busy apologizing for your ancestors, you need to get your facts straight. My ancestors were slaves as well, even though they were not black, so feel sorry for them if you want to pity someone. They too had their families ripped apart and many never saw them again.
If Rev Wright wants to continue to spew his hatred towards whites, which he does, and lets make no mistake about that, Obama does indeed need to be scrutinized closely for his continued presence in that church for 20 years. I don't give a rat's butt how may seemingly wonderful programs that church had. A lot of churches have great community programs but had very vile underlying reasons for the way they want to penetrate the community.
Prejudice goes both ways...so don't waste your time thinking that you need to feel guilty for anything or worry about what Obama thinks about you. His past relationships he chose after being a young man old enough to make his own choices were his to make. And he chose to make them with dangerous people, and people in other countries that were and still are more than questionable in their reputations, some very dangerous to us and many other countries.
You spend your time doing your homework about Obama and stop thinking you owe him or anyone else anything. You/we do not. Obama has chosen his friends very carefully and for reasons that you have a right to question, only because he is running for president of YOUR country.
So, if you think he is racist against you or any white to a small or larger degree, who cares? That's his problem he will have to deal with. Some very racist people are very good at hiding their true feelings because they don't want to be discovered for what they are.
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