Sensationalist
Kouhai
- 2 Jan 2008
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and christian slaves weren't? rome, Constantine? chinese capturing koreans and even just treating their own peasants like slaves? isn't it amazing how people simply overlook other cultures issues just so they can lambast the US for stuff it didn't do or just hate on our culture. jews had slaves and they were treated far better than slaves in east asia. in fact a roman general suggested jews need to be wiped out because our slaves may give their peasants idea's. so i really don't see how the worlds most successful culture is so flawed and evil.
Pugtm, I don't think I have denied the existence of slavery in other cultures. What am trying to do is draw a link between slavery and religion and how people use "god" and manifest destiny as reasons to enslave other human beings. I'm not talking about indentured servitude here nor am I talking about slaves who were the spoils of war who had no place to go. I am talking about people who wear god on their sleeves claiming to have a divine right to enslave another race based off the color of their skin or race because god said so.... Historically, western countries have used "god" to justify the enslavement/oppression/discrimination of human beings, not just in Europe but all over the world. You didn't hear the Daoist(Taoist) and the Han Confucianist schools talking this kind of rhetoric ! Only in the West did man justify the enslavement of other human beings based off their
"skin color" because of a mandate from god....Like I mentioned in other posts; the Old and New Testament supported and even encourages slavery.