Your morality is based in religion or yourself?
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Anonymous
Before the Revolutionary War, evangelical colonists were the primary advocates for the opposition to slavery and the slave trade, doing so on the basis of humanitarian ethics. Evangelical Christians were behind the abolishment of slavery in the United States. The first statement against slavery in Colonial America was written in 1688 by the Religious Society of Friends. The Second Great Awakening of the 1820s and 1830s in religion inspired groups that undertook many types of social reform. For some that included the immediate abolition of slavery as they considered it sinful to hold slaves as well as to tolerate slavery. Opposition to slavery, for example, was one of the works of piety of the Methodist Churches, which were established by John Wesley. Historian James Stewart (1976) explains the abolitionists' deep beliefs: "All people were equal in God's sight; the souls of black folks were as valuable as those of whites; for one of God's children to enslave another was a violation of the Higher Law, even if it was sanctioned by the Constitution." (gov says it’s ok to own slaves; religious Americans say even though it’s legal, it’s wrong.) So Evangelical Christianity really stood up for the rights of enslaved Black Americans and helped abolish slavery, a fact conveniently ignored by people who post here. |
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Conservative Baptist Network co-founder Rod Martin “recently resigned from the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) amidst criticism of his response to the massive sexual abuse scandal plaguing the SBC
Right wingers ultra religious conservatives always the pedos always projecting what hey are |
Anonymous
WRONG! Rooted in a belief that their duty to spread Christianity justified their actions, religious organizations did not only embrace human trafficking and the enslavement of millions of Africans—they actively participated. https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/origins/sidebar/the-role-of-the-christian-church/ |
Anonymous
Christian abolitionists absolutely were the driving force behind the United States abolishing slavery. I don’t see any citations at your link, claiming Christians were actively slavers. |
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Abolitionism - Timeline Movement
Time Period 1680 - 1865 Description The earliest abolitionists in the United States were Quakers, who held the first anti-slavery demonstrations in Germantown Philadelphia in 1688 and banning slavery among Philadelphia members in the 1750s. Evangelical Christians experienced a shift in attitudes toward slavery during the First and Second Great Awakenings (1730s-1770s; 1790s-1840s), as thousands of Americans underwent religious conversion experiences. However, some prominent revivalists (e.g., George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards) remained in support of slavery. Abolitionism continued into the 19th century as southern slavery persisted. Debates raged in the 1830s-1840s, as Philadelphia pastor and abolitionist Albert Barnes failed to change the minds of southern clergymen, who continued to publish Christian apologetics for slavery. Meanwhile, issues of slavery led to schisms among the Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists. Preceding and escalating the Civil War was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). It argued that Christian love could overcome the evils of slavery and helped convince many northerners to finally take a strong abolitionist stance. https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/history/timelines/entry?etype=3&eid=41 |
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Over 1 and 1/2 hour webinar on Christianity and the abolitionist movement. I don’t know why some posters are in denial and desperate to lie about the abolitionist movement and Christianity’s role in spearheading the abolition of slavery in the United States?
It’s probably the poster who repeatedly post how religion is a net evil in the world. They are determined to hate religion and ignore the good that religion has done. Nobody has to like religion but trying to pretend that Christian abolitionists didn’t begin and drive the movement to abolish slavery in the US is delusional and a straight up lie that becomes more and more hysterically obvious as delusional lies from a determined liar as they persist. The National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit organization, and the only independent institute dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. The Center is supported by the generosity of individual donors, grants from private and public foundations, corporate philanthropy, and institutional sponsors—universities and academic organizations whose partnership specifically supports the Center’s fellowship program and public outreach efforts. Sponsors of the National Humanities Center Burroughs Wellcome Fund The Duke Endowment Duke University North Carolina State University Princeton University RTI International The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina Humanities Council Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies University of Pennsylvania Washington University in St. Louis Yale University Appalachian State University Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Bard College Barnard College Bowdoin College Brandeis University School of Arts & Sciences Brigham Young University Bucknell University Case Western Reserve University The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Arlington Columbia University Division of Arts and Sciences Dartmouth College, Leslie Center for the Humanities Davidson College Emory College of Arts and Sciences Fresno State University Furman University George Mason University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Hamilton College Howard University Illinois Wesleyan University Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Johnson C. Smith University Macalester College North Carolina Central University Penn State Humanities Institute, Pennsylvania State University Pomona College Prairie View A&M University Reed College Rice University School of Humanities Smith College St. Olaf College Stony Brook University Swarthmore College Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences Texas Tech University College of Arts and Sciences The New School The Ohio State University The University of Alabama, College of Arts and Sciences The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Humanities Center Trinity University United Negro College Fund University of Arizona University of California, Irvine, Humanities Center University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Riverside University of California, Santa Cruz, Humanities Division University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere University of Georgia University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, College of Arts, Languages & Letters University of Indiana College of Arts and Sciences University of Iowa University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities University of Maryland University of Memphis, Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities University of Missouri University of Missouri–Kansas City University of North Carolina at Charlotte College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters University of Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Forum University of South Carolina University of Tulsa University of Utah College of Humanities University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Wesleyan University William Jewell College Wittenberg University https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/who-we-are/ |