“Why didn’t the Christian God ever explicitly and clearly condemn slavery?” This was John Loftus’ question in his book, Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity. He posed it after sharing the following chilling account of slavery as practiced in the antebellum American south, He took her into the kitchen, and stripped [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Slavery'
Contra Mundum: Slavery and the Old Testament
April 3rd, 2010 31 Comments
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · John Loftus · Old Testament Ethics · Slavery · Theology
Sunday Study: Slavery, John Locke and the Bible
June 28th, 2009 97 Comments
It is often affirmed, as an incontestable and obvious truth, that the Bible supports slavery. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong cites Leviticus 25:44 as evidence of this charge in “Why Traditional Theism is not an Adequate Foundation for Morality.”[1] Although Armstrong is not the alone in making this claim, I think the charge is mistaken; the Bible does [...]
Tags: John Locke · John Loftus · Old Testament Ethics · Selection · Slavery · Sunday Study · Theology · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
In Remembrance of the Religious Right
November 29th, 2006 1 Comment
Many people gained their freedom because of the religious right and the determination of one man to impose his unpopular religious beliefs onto society through the state.
Tags: Religion in Public Life · Slavery · William Wilberforce
