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Victor? :\Jesus did not condemn institutional slavery, and so cast our collective shadow.
Are you testing my active listening skills?
Victor? :\Jesus did not condemn institutional slavery, and so cast our collective shadow.
Victor? :\
Are you testing my active listening skills?
The purpose of His message was not to condemn institutional slavery, directly. If people saw themselves as needy creatures in need of grace, then they would not be able to lord over others, and that was what His teachings pointed to. Slavery was just a symptom of man's "collective shadow" like every other sin.
No He wasn't; unless you believe it was His duty to wipe out all evil right then on the spot. That's actually what the people who rejected Him were expecting in a Messiah (so yes, they basically He was complicit in sin), and we all feel that way sometimes, but man needed salvation from the penalty of sin (spiritual death) more than a world where all sin is wiped out. For that would be basically wiping all of us out, as the Noah story showed us.
This historical reality is that institutional slavery was first abolished by the House of Commons in Britain in 1833.
So it was the Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy that abolished institutional slavery for the first time in human history.
And the abolition of slavery led to the emancipation of women for the first time in human history at the beginning of the 20th century in Australia and New Zealand. Both countries founded by the Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy.
And the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women led to the prosecution in our criminal courts of child sexual abusers for the first time in human history in the last decade of the 20th century. But only in countries of the Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy.
And it is also an historical fact that theology never abolished institutional slavery, emancipated women, or prosecuted child sexual abusers.
victor, there were a lot of different people that were involved in abolishing slavery. quakers were some of the first and william wilberforce, an anglican clergyman and member of the british parliament was one of the driving forces in the parliament to abolish slavery. you can see a whole list of folks who opposed slavery at the abolition project's site and quite a few are christians. i also know it was the quakers who were fighting for first wave feminism in the US with their work and influence in the suffrage movement.
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additionally, there are numerous christian groups currently fighting against the various forms of modern day slavery: human trafficking. international justice mission is one of the larger and more well-known ones.
This is basically what you're describing, regarding slavery being abolished due to movements such as the Enlightenment.
Regardless, it's still not about Christianity, Christianity used "blind belief" to maintain control; which all you're showing is that it is another human enterprise, so what if those other enterprises did something better?
Because it's a human system (one that capitalized on a genuine need, and then people got in to manipulate it for their own power). Again, what's the point?
I'm sorry, but that is totally contorted reasoning. The Christ who was actually sacrificed was fully grown (30's), and the Father-Son relationship in the Godhead is not the same as a human father and "child", so the analogies do not fit.
It's still not the same as the sort of "child sacrifice" you're talking about, and you know it.