“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 her [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Slavery'
Contra Mundum: Slavery and the Old Testament
April 3rd, 2010 29 Comments
Tags: Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · John Loftus · Slavery · Theology
Sunday Study: Slavery, John Locke and the Bible
June 28th, 2009 96 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 · 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 and Public Life · Slavery · William Wilberforce
