Theme: people can claim religion but really don’t strive to be “christ-like.”
A theme shared by The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass and an article named, “Are [some] Christians Really hypocrites?” is the idea of how people can claim religion yet don’t strive to be “christ-like” (Steffan 1) Douglass called “religious” slave owners the “most cruel and cowardly of all others” (Douglass 67) and continues to bring this idea up in the narrative. He makes it clear that these slave owners were going against their own belief system of being righteous. For being religious according to the web means to stay “committed, God-like, and religion practicing.” Douglass explains how they’re “the worst” and “the meanest” obviously because of their
A theme shared by The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass and an article named, “Are [some] Christians Really hypocrites?” is the idea of how people can claim religion yet don’t strive to be “christ-like” (Steffan 1) Douglass called “religious” slave owners the “most cruel and cowardly of all others” (Douglass 67) and continues to bring this idea up in the narrative. He makes it clear that these slave owners were going against their own belief system of being righteous. For being religious according to the web means to stay “committed, God-like, and religion practicing.” Douglass explains how they’re “the worst” and “the meanest” obviously because of their