Curried Goats
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Yeah, none of that racist, slave apology shows Jesus would of been on the side of white supremacists.I'm reading an interesting book which touches on that very topic.
If you follow my threads over the next few weeks/months, I may be answering that very question.
But if you want a head start....
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Here is some of the answer.
“But why would the African indigene allow himself to engage in this type of degrading transactional relationship in which cheap costume jewelry and tawdry goods were used in exchange for the lives of human beings? This book begins the examination of culpability and moral responsibility by looking at how the African indigene made himself into a slave by adhering to a primitive, philosophic belief in animism (an enslavement to a cyclical, biological, and zoomorphic identification with nature and the animal world) and the absence of a conception of an appreciation for the intrinsic dignity and inviolate moral worth of the individual human being as a human being.
In other words, the sub-Saharan bushman had no conception of the inviolability and intrinsic value of human life and no political ideology or moral system that could fight the onslaught of slavery.
The African indigene regarded himself as part of nature. The European, endowed with a Christian sensibility, saw himself as separate and apart from nature and viewed it not as a friend but as a phenomenon to be exploited—a thing that would adapt itself to meet his needs and desires. The African positioned as indistinguishable from nature, and the European viewed him as such. Concomitantly, as part of the expression of the Western personality, the European exploited that manifestation of nature and adapted it to meet his needs. The indigene, living outside the historical process, sentimentalized nature and adapted himself to it like all cyclical creatures who are, therefore, incapable of technological, spiritual, and cognitive evolution on a par with Western man.” Jason D. Hill, “What-Do-White-Americans-Owe-Black-People-Racial-Justice-in-the-Age-of-Post-Oppression”
It was religion that fought slavery, and took its cue in Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image