Did "real" Christians ignore the atrocities in much the same way "real" Christians voted Hitler into power?
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King, Jr..
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.” British statesman Edmund Burke
“Indifference in the face of evil is complicity with evil.”
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1945
Who speaks out for the people of Darfur?
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2007-02-25 05:24:42 · 12 answers · asked by Hatikvah 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Slavery didn't flourish in the deep south because if Christianity, although many Christians used the Bible as a justification for what they did.
It flourished because the south's economy was dependent on cotton, and farmers thought they needed slaves to harvest said cotton.
At the time slavery was prominent in the US there wasn't a 'Bible Belt' so to speak. Most everyone in the US around that time were fundamentalist Christians.
Which is not to imply that I don't find the Christian's use of the Bible to help them commit such atrocities appalling, just that being Christian wasn't their sole justification for holding slaves.
2007-02-25 05:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Slavery flourished everywhere interior the U. S. for an prolonged time. It became into basically greater widespread interior the south because of the actuality that the south became into greater often than not agricultural. Has no longer something to do with the "Bible Belt". Slavery has been around for the reason that long formerly Christians or the Bible Belt ever existed.
2016-10-01 23:18:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings!
thank you for raising the question about Darfur!
The practice of using the Bible as a weapon to control,
and not free the mind and hearts of others is instilled in our culture
we even have Christians that see no disparity in America now!
go figure, again the most segregated hours in America are
between 9 am and 2 pm on Sunday.
praise the Lord, unless you free you mind of the delusional church you cannot know God's love and truth!
2007-02-25 05:34:25 · answer #3 · answered by Godis! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're touching on a real sensitive nerve here; let me tell you why. Jesus taught a message of God's "Kingdom." This was a social message of righteousness. If God were our king, there would be no injustice, so the Gospel is primarily a message of social justice.
As Christianity developed, it became something quite divorced from that message. It also became divorced from the message of the Old Testament prophets, who called for justice time and time again; it was their major theme.
It would supersede religious divisions if people got on the same page in sticking up for those who are treated unjustly. This shows that Jesus was NOT here to start a religion, but a personal, social, cultural, political and religious revolution that many of his modern "followers" shun.
Thank-you for echoing the true heart of the Gospel of Jesus...interestingly, you don't have to be a Christian to embrace it and embracing it doesn't necessarily make you one.
2007-02-25 05:35:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy, sin. BTW Martin Luther King Jr. Was he a Christian or not? How bout Wilburforce the one who ended the British slave trade. Was he a Christian or not?
2007-02-25 05:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by Andres 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't ask the Democrats. They were the slave owners and opposed civil rights legislation by the republicans for 100 years. They supported the Jim Crow laws, organized the KKK, hing blacks, and blocked civil rights until 1964, when suddenly they needed black votes to win the election, so they claimed they wre on their side suddenly....
the democrats are atheists, not christians...
the clinton administration declared that dafur was not "marketable" to the american people so he refused to help them... this is because the genocide and slavery involves christian victims....
the republicans speak out for dafur... in fact if you look . it is christians that are help the people down there....you will not find one democrat spending his own money to help anyone...
christains give of their own to help others....Rod Parsely has a major campaign to help free slaves in darfur....look up his ministry.. the bush administration has authorized help to Sudan
i hope blacks finally wake up to how the democrats (atheists) have used them for political purposes....
2007-02-25 05:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They were not real Christians.
Slavery had nothing to do with the Bible or religion.
Slavery existed for economic reasons.
Free labor reduced their costs.
If they had to pay for labor they could not have prospered the way they did.
2007-02-25 05:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible encourages slavery.
2007-02-25 07:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible condones slavery.
2007-02-25 05:27:42 · answer #9 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That is human nature. And Semitic gods are just a product of humanity.
2007-02-25 05:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jedi 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋