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So, with that last sentence, are we insisting that the slave trade was all part of God's Plan to bring black people to America and (better) to Jesus?
So, with that last sentence, are we insisting that the slave trade was all part of God's Plan to bring black people to America and (better) to Jesus?
So, with that last sentence, are we insisting that the slave trade was all part of God's Plan to bring black people to America and (better) to Jesus?
If FYM is any indicator African and Asian Christians will soon see the need to send missionaries to spread the Gospel to us.
Actually, 60% of Christians live in developing countries.
In this life. Just wait until the next life, when they reap their eternal reward.And the missionaries have done a bang up job screwing up said developing countries
And the missionaries have done a bang up job screwing up said developing countries
Uganda does not need more Christianity. What it needs is food, shelter, better medicine, and most importantly education.
it's illegal to be homosexual over there (you're actually allowed to kill a person just because they admit to being homosexual, and the authorities will do nothing). It's terrifying over there.
INDY500 said:Not slaves but certainly the descendents of Western slaves. And you either understand what that means or you don't care to.
What Southerners did in the Civil War to justify their view of slavery is exactly, exactly, what Dan Savage does when he misapplies his biblical references to slavery.
Many go over to Africa (or other continents) with the intention of doing good, but often it's misguided.
Uganda does not need more Christianity. What it needs is food, shelter, better medicine, and most importantly education. It already has Christianity, and it's illegal to be homosexual over there (you're actually allowed to kill a person just because they admit to being homosexual, and the authorities will do nothing). It's terrifying over there.
Not slaves but certainly the descendents of Western slaves. And you either understand what that means or you don't care to.
Uganda does not need more Christianity. What it needs is ...
If you apply Savage's logic to the founding of this country than supporters of the 3/5's clause were pro-slavery because they didn't condemn slavery, they only regulated it.
... everyone to hang up posters saying Stop Kony!
.... right?
Well, yeah. When it comes to civil rights, the whole "Take it slow, baby steps" argument is much more frustrating than your run-of-the-mill political issue. The reason? Because this isn't an issue where there are legitimate arguments on both sides. That's how all civil rights issues are and have been in the past.As to my main point, anyone?
I understand the argument--though it's just an argument, not an indisputable fact--that one implication of the letter to Philemon is that Christians should not own Christians. That's quite different from asserting that people may not own people, period.What Southerners did in the Civil War to justify their view of slavery is exactly, exactly, what Dan Savage does when he misapplies his biblical references to slavery.
Actually, I would like to understand what you mean here but don't. Present-day African-Americans are able to partake in the generally high standard of living in this country insofar as their fundamental human rights have (finally) been acknowledged by its laws. And that outcome is to be credited to slavery how?Not slaves but certainly the descendents of Western slaves. And you either understand what that means or you don't care to.
No one really did it?
Come on! In Seattle alone, I saw FOUR posters in one neighborhood on the way to work after the Kony Poster Extravaganza took place!
One was even written in ballpoint pen, with a frowny-face drawn on it. That sign alone saved 0.67 children, I'm sure.
And that outcome is to be credited to slavery how?
They wouldn't have otherwise been here will be the argument.
Having been a missionary for eleven years, I take exception to the broad brush missionaries are being painted with. My guess is most of you have very little real, personal experience with actual missionaries.
I get the criticisms--I read (and loved) The Posionwood Bible--but at the same time, that kind of missionary, and the kind you all are talking about has nothing to do with most of the missionaries I know. I would hope it has nothing to do with me or the work I did either.
With out slavery there would be no Oprah.
Think about it.