Why are Blacks still following christianity?

[GrindtooFilthy]

dude made some valid points

 

[Kritic]

you must have seen this shyt on facebook. i saw it a few days ago. good points but its got a bad ending..

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

you must have seen this shyt on facebook. i saw it a few days ago. good points but its got a bad ending..

i think he was being sarcastic with the ending, i didn't take that bit seriously.

 

[Kritic]

i think he was being sarcastic with the ending, i didn't take that bit seriously.

i say sarcasm fail..

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

LOL. He's about as wrong as two left feet, but don't let that stop anyone from actually thinking or researching his claims. Let's start out by defining 'slavery' since in the Ancient Near East, it wasn't an 'institution' like that of antebellum South or after the Islamic conquests. For instance, slavery as we know it, was involuntary and for the lifetime of the slave, whereas in the ANE (Ancient Near East), it was mostly voluntary and temporary. How do we know this is true? We have ancient writings from surrounding civilizations of Babylon, Akkad, Ur, Ugarit, etc. Mostly consisting of court documents that show slaves acting as agents for great merchant houses dating back to Neo-Babylon. The majority of slaves were volunteers as a result of debt or as a form of relief after a disaster, even as a form of adoption, not prisoners of war......​

4.3.1.2 Many of the documents concern enslavement for debt and contain redemption clauses. There is no direct evidence of a category of irredeemable chattel slaves, although it may be the case with slaves that are the object of purchase, inheritance, or gift

4.3.2.1 Most of the recorded cases of entry of free persons into slavery are by reason of debt or famine or both. Some documents refer to a general calamity, for example, “in the year of famine when three seah of barley cost one shekel of silver” (ASJ 13:37: mu.kala.ga ki 3 sila “e.me“ ana1 gín kubabbar izzaz), “in the year when enemy troops besieged the city and one seah of barley cost one shekel of silver” (TBR 25). Others refer to personal disaster, e.g., that “her creditors seized her and she could not pay them” (ASJ 13:36). A common practice was for a financier to pay off the various creditors in return for the debtor becoming his slave

4.3.2.2 A person would either enter into slavery or be sold by a parent or relative. Persons sold their wives , grandchildren, brother, sister, sister-in-law, daughter in-law, nephews, and niece.

4.3.2.3 Many of the documents emphasize that the transaction is voluntary (i“tu ramàni“u). This applies not only to self-sale but also to those who are the object of sale, although their consent must sometimes have been fictional, as in the case of a nursing infant.

4.3.3.1 In several cases, the status of children was separated from that of their slave parents. In ASJ 14:46, a prince of Carchemish declared the children of his slave free, while retaining the latter. In Emar 18, the king of Carchemish ruled that the children and father of a person enslaved for a judgment debt remained free.

4.3.4.1.1 A slave might be manumitted by his owner. Freedom was expressed in various ways: “released to (the god) Shamash” , “released to maryannu status”, “released to arawannu status”, or “may go where he pleases”

4.3.4.2.3 Slaves might redeem themselves out of their peculium. In one instance it is contemplated that the slave pay from “silver at his disposal” (“a qàti“u). A clause in another document allows the slave to redeem himself “if he makes one person from the house” (i“tu bìti 1 napi“ta ippa“) but apparently precludes him from acquiring a substitute from another for this purpose (i.e., of indebting himself with a third person)

~A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, Vol 2. pgs. 664 - 667.

Slaves were also somewhat protected......​

4.5.5.3 Conditions

The slave was protected against three forms of maltreatment:

1. Excessive physical punishment. Even chattel slaves appear to have benefited to some extent from this protection.
2. Sexual abuse. Sexual intercourse with a woman amounted to an offense in the ancient Near East when it was an infringement of the rights of the person under whose authority she was, for example her father or her husband. Ownership of a chattel slave eliminated that authority but not entirely so in the case of a debt slave.
3. Sale abroad. Only native debt slaves were protected by this prohibition, which must in any case have been difficult to enforce in practice.

~A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, Vol. 1, pg. 43

It is under these contexts that 'slaves' were referred to in all Ancient Near Eastern literature including the passages the gentlemen referred to in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. In short, slavery in the ANE bears little resemblance to slavery as modern society understands the term.

Dude's whole rant is invalid.​

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

^^^nice find but what about the bit of selling your daughters into slavery?

 

[observe]

LOL. He's about as wrong as two left feet, but don't let that stop anyone from actually thinking or researching his claims. Let's start out by defining 'slavery' since in the Ancient Near East, it wasn't an 'institution' like that of antebellum South or after the Islamic conquests. For instance, slavery as we know it, was involuntary and for the lifetime of the slave, whereas in the ANE (Ancient Near East), it was mostly voluntary and temporary. How do we know this is true? We have ancient writings from surrounding civilizations of Babylon, Akkad, Ur, Ugarit, etc. Mostly consisting of court documents that show slaves acting as agents for great merchant houses dating back to Neo-Babylon. The majority of slaves were volunteers as a result of debt or as a form of relief after a disaster, even as a form of adoption, not prisoners of war......​

Slaves were also somewhat protected......​

It is under these contexts that 'slaves' were referred to in all Ancient Near Eastern literature including the passages the gentlemen referred to in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. In short, slavery in the ANE bears little resemblance to slavery as modern society understands the term.

Dude's whole rant is invalid.​

Why did you post all that,, it has nothing to do with the video

 

[Brown_Pride]

hmmm....
Today I treated everyone like I wanted to be treated...as directed in the bible.

Bible wins.



that's the problem with taking what people have done IN THE NAME OF religion.
again...

 

[the cac mamba]

if american christianity isnt a tool of white supremacy, i dont know what is

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

if american christianity isnt a tool of white supremacy, i dont know what is

Science......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism



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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

^^^nice find but what about the bit of selling your daughters into slavery?

That's what happens when you don't research a claim. Read the rest of the verse he quoted:

Exodus 21: 7 - 11

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not be freed as male slaves are. If she proves to be displeasing to her master, who designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed; he shall not have the right to sell her to outsiders, since he broke faith with her. And if he designated her for his son, he shall deal with her as is the practice with free maidens. If he marries another, he must not withhold from this one her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. If he fails her in these three ways, she shall go free, without payment.

In the verses above 'slave' is a euphemism for 'wife' in an arranged marriage contract with the woman's consent.
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In the ancient world, a father, driven by poverty, might sell his daughter into a well-to-do family in order to ensure her future security. The sale presupposes marriage to the master or his son. Documents recording legal arrangements of this kind have survived from Nuzi. The Torah stipulates that the girl must be treated as a free woman; should the designated husband take an additional wife, he is still obligated to support her. A breach of faith gains her her freedom, and the master receives no compensation for the purchase price.

 

[kevm3]

Just wait for a few more years as more of the prophecies in the Bible come true. We'll soon see how real Jesus is.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Christianity is your brain in drugs.

 

[Bud Bundy]

lol @Dafunkdoc_Unlimited

racists will use any tool to prove there point.

 

[IVS]

It's so interesting. I saw an old black woman on the train this morning reading the Bible, and I wondered to myself, does she even know what she is reading and how to digest it.