Can you imagine a world, where the Bible is used as a tool in 245 years of American slavery? Although, physical slavery ended in 1865, mental slavery still continues in America today. During the times of slavery, the slave owners would recite a variety of passages from the Old Testament to justify the immoral act of slavery. Uneducated misinterpretations of the bible have implanted true horror stories in the psyches of many African-Americans. Did the bible justify American slavery? No, Christianity was the indispensable tool to end slavery. Nevertheless, American slave owners used the bible as a tool to cover up their greed. The practice of white supremacist, not the practice of Christianity moved the white supremacist to change the meaning
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Revelation 5:9 states, “With your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.” We are all made in the image of God, and from one blood. Wayne Hammer the author of Senders, unravels the true origins of races throughout the world. Hammer explains, Hams descendants were Sumerians, Egyptians, Ethiopians and dispersed over the modern day middle east. He explained this theory to be called the Cannon Effect. The Cannon Effect corresponds with David winkles evidence that many Palestinians are the descendants of cannon. Consequently, Christian slave masters wrongly justified slavery with a misinterpretation of the bible and historical …show more content…
Even so, they ignored this moral sense and tried to detect elements in the bible to justify their wrong behavior. According to the encyclopedia, William Lloyd Garrison was the symbol of the Antislavery Movement. Garrison was raised by His pious single mother, Frances-Maria Lloyd. Often she would send him to stay with a Baptist deacon, to teach him how to be a true man of God. Garrison believed in the "immediate and complete emancipation" of slaves. Churches that refused to condemn slavery, whose churches he called "cages of unclean birds". He was also against capital punishment and was for the rights of women. “Garrison 's plan for the universal emancipation of all men from all forms of sin and injustice.” Leading Christian abolitionist, Fredrick Douglass stated in The Fredrick Douglass
Revelation 5:9 states, “With your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.” We are all made in the image of God, and from one blood. Wayne Hammer the author of Senders, unravels the true origins of races throughout the world. Hammer explains, Hams descendants were Sumerians, Egyptians, Ethiopians and dispersed over the modern day middle east. He explained this theory to be called the Cannon Effect. The Cannon Effect corresponds with David winkles evidence that many Palestinians are the descendants of cannon. Consequently, Christian slave masters wrongly justified slavery with a misinterpretation of the bible and historical …show more content…
Even so, they ignored this moral sense and tried to detect elements in the bible to justify their wrong behavior. According to the encyclopedia, William Lloyd Garrison was the symbol of the Antislavery Movement. Garrison was raised by His pious single mother, Frances-Maria Lloyd. Often she would send him to stay with a Baptist deacon, to teach him how to be a true man of God. Garrison believed in the "immediate and complete emancipation" of slaves. Churches that refused to condemn slavery, whose churches he called "cages of unclean birds". He was also against capital punishment and was for the rights of women. “Garrison 's plan for the universal emancipation of all men from all forms of sin and injustice.” Leading Christian abolitionist, Fredrick Douglass stated in The Fredrick Douglass