A point I try to hammer every time the issue comes up. It is the Christian WorldView that freed the slaves, and nothing else.
Posted on 10/13/2015 10:41:47 AM PDT by 100American
A biblical worldview—the true and historically-based answer to racism
It is noteworthy that the abolitionist movement came out of a Christian worldview. The great British anti-slavery advocate, William Wilberforce, believed that all men were created equal and “in the image of God”. Even though the ‘science’ of his day could not account for the similarity of all human beings (in fact, they were more likely to notice the differences), Wilberforce took a stand on the Bible. Yet this view would not be vindicated by science until many years after his death. This is a cautionary lesson for all Christians who choose to compromise with evolutionary theory. Evolution cannot provide an adequate and logical foundation for treating people equally. Even today, the leading lights of evolution are condoning the Nazi-like practices of the past by advocating eugenics, as Darwin himself did. See Dawkins and eugenics and The Holocaust and evolution.
Real observational science demonstrates that the genetic variations of all human beings, regardless of skin colour, eye shape, or size is less than one percent of the total sum of our DNA. The finding that all humans are closely related, so much so that ‘race’ is a biologically meaningless (manmade) term
The Truth shall set you free...
You are more right than you know...
Color meant little, Religion and Creed differentiates one tribe from another
We are all part of the Human Race, not Races, if we agree on this point aloe then the rest is worthless conversation...
Liberalism is an evolutionary dead end.
“It is noteworthy that the abolitionist movement came out of a Christian worldview.”
That is a fact that secular liberals never cite when discussing the abolition slavery in America, but instead claim that Christans are the ones that held slaves in America.
“The finding that all humans are closely related, so much so that ‘race’ is a biologically meaningless (manmade) term”
Tell that to BLM and race pimps.
Precisely, if they tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth
Goebbels in Germany said this I believe of Propaganda...
One percent is actually quite a lot, and in truth the amount of DNA difference between races is much less.
But, consider a single gene mutation turned Y. Pestis from an innocuous stomach bug into a bacteria that caused the Black Death and wiped out a third of the population of Europe.
A point I try to hammer every time the issue comes up. It is the Christian WorldView that freed the slaves, and nothing else.
Then just ignore IQ testing for decades, which shows blacks average IQ of 85 versus Asians around 106?
I find it to be entirely logical that differences do exist, in physical and mental abilities.
I do not find citing this fact, to be racist.
It is not and can be best attributed to nature, they had no tech or need for the thought processes of people in other situations. But they did amplify the warrior side of themselves, peace between tribes was fleeting at best
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