Comments on: Did Christianity Abolish Slavery?

By: Ryan Jordan

Ryan Jordan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:36:04 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this article.

I am a christian from New Zealand.

We had legislation changed in recent years to remove the defence of "reasonable force" when discipling a child. Guess who marched, signed petitions and cried foul over the proposed changes. This was a legislation change made to protect children.

Christians do embarrass me.

We do blow our trumpet too much with regard to our self belief as advocates and great redeemers of social justice. I apologise sincerel

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Daylight Atheism > The Connection Between Religion and Slavery — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:20:32 +0000

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By: Thumpalumpacus

Thumpalumpacus — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:48:44 +0000

Friend, Christianity is slavery.

By: Mat

Mat — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:38:34 +0000

Slavery like all sins is not abolished. Your article sites enough information that even you agree Christians are against slavery. Keep the site as is. It is worth more people stumbling across it.

By: Modusoperandi

Modusoperandi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:17:02 +0000

It's remarkable just how malleable this "absolute morality" thing is.

By: lpetrich

lpetrich — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:57:15 +0000

Here's the Ku Klux Klan's home page. The KKKers claim that they are "Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!" Yes, they seem to think that white Americans are being persecuted. As to the apologetic that OMGF mentioned, it seems to me to be stretching "day" into meaninglessness.

By: David Ellis

David Ellis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22:39 +0000

"Sarfati closes with the utterly ludicrous claim that the "enemies of racial equality also saw its Christian underpinning". He states that the 1963 KKK bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham shows the "virulently anti-Christian attitudes held by fanatical racists". Yes, this is a claim that the Ku Klux Klan is anti-Christian - which is a willful and flagrant denial of reality. The KKK was and still is an explicitly Christian organization." I grew up in the south and had been given the impression as a child that the KKK burned crosses in the sense of destroying a christian symbol (much like burning someone in effigy) rather than what it really was: a huge flaming cross visible at great distances in the night to proclaim their work as a service to the Christian God. Its amazing the amount of historical revisionism that's gone on in the south in so short a time.

By: OMGF

OMGF — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:56:34 +0000

And also credit for the notion of the extreme age of the Universe.

Some are basically already trying to do this with claims that Genesis says the Earth began, which refers to the big bang, and that since "day" can mean anything they want it to mean at any particular time that it's very much in accord with what we know through science.

By: Peter N

Peter N — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:34:26 +0000

lpetrich: Where will it end?

We are confident that Christianity itself will be nothing but a historical footnote long before that.

By: lpetrich

lpetrich — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:24:24 +0000

Xian apologists have also tried to give their religion credit for feminism, by bragging about how pro-woman their religion supposedly is.

But there is a certain hollowness in their bragging -- where are all the Xian female religious leaders? Yes, leaders.

Will they next try to give their religion credit for the idea of evolution, including human evolution? And try to insinuate that it's only dumb pagans who have believed that our first ancestors were poofed into existence by this or that Universe-controlling superbeing.

And also credit for the notion of the extreme age of the Universe.

And also the idea of physicalist mind, complete with insinuating that it's dumb pagans who have believed in a mind separate from the body.

Where will it end?

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By: Heidi

Heidi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:02:50 +0000

Sarfati claims that the Bible is anti-slavery.

Clearly this guy skipped Exodus 21. Or else he had it mind-wiped from his head during his Lying for Jesus lessons.