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Churches played an active role in slavery and segregation. Some want to make amends.
NBC News / Comcast ^ | April 3, 2022 | By Michela Moscufo

Posted on 04/03/2022 5:35:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

Ah, the Lutheran pretenders.

21 posted on 04/03/2022 6:59:55 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ignorance of history. William Wilberforce.


22 posted on 04/03/2022 7:01:27 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the clergy unanimously voted to set aside $1.1 million of the diocese’s endowment for a reparations fund...

Who will be in charge of disbursing these funds or will it be like the BLM windfall that made a half dozen or so individuals wealthy beyond their wildest dreams?

23 posted on 04/03/2022 7:02:35 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
The Catholic Church in Quebec sure did have a hand in this.

They never passed up a chance to convert people.

The Church, along with the French government encouraged the St. Francis tribe to capture a bunch of New Englanders and march the survivors to Quebec to be sold as slaves, whom they hoped to convert in the process.

To a degree, they were successful.

Read the book, "Unredeemed Captive".

Several of the captives were closely related to me.

The Quebec government, France and the Catholic Church thereby owe ME reparations!$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!

But wait!

I also descend from French Canadian Catholics.

Do I owe myself reparations?

There are few 100% pure bred folks who have ancestry going back to the days of slavery.

A LOT of those who think they are owed reparations, if a proper genealogy and DNA investigation was done, would find they need to pay themselves.

24 posted on 04/03/2022 7:03:17 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: BereanBrain

And David Livingston!


25 posted on 04/03/2022 7:05:58 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Churches? How about Jews and Muslims. They literally ran the slave trade


26 posted on 04/03/2022 7:07:01 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Louis Foxwell

I agree.


27 posted on 04/03/2022 7:19:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You would be hard pressed to find any Amish, Mennonite or Quaker churches who supported slavery! If you go way back, it appears that St. Paul moved and operated among a culture where slavery was condoned. Someday, hopefully a generation will arise can look without emotion, the entire concept of the growth and developement of civilization, and see that MANY groups of people have been in chains. Jews were the slaves of the Persians. Ignorance, debt and weakness and corrupted morales, will eventually lead to some sort of bondage.


28 posted on 04/03/2022 7:28:47 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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Jesus Himself wasn’t an abolitionist; He seemed to regard it as a natural state of affairs.


29 posted on 04/03/2022 7:34:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

What is the basis for such a ridiculous claim?


30 posted on 04/03/2022 7:35:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

This has nothing to do with “misdeeds” (all of the perps and victims are long dead); this is about wealth redistribution while attempting to remain relevant. My town has many large beautiful churches of various denominations, and they are generally empty.

This pandering while giving away other peoples’ money shows their irrelevance, just trying to stay in the news so people know they’re still open for business.


31 posted on 04/03/2022 7:42:30 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: bert

Do you have any quotes from the Bible where Jesus spoke against slavery?


32 posted on 04/03/2022 7:44:36 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Reily
And David Livingstone!

Regards,

33 posted on 04/03/2022 7:47:13 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
After his speech at the diocese’s annual convention, the clergy unanimously voted to set aside $1.1 million of the diocese’s endowment for a reparations fund, marking the beginning of what the diocese referred to as “The Year of Reparation.”

They're kidding themselves if they think that a mere year is going to be enough! And they're kidding themselves if they think that a mere $1.1 million is going to be enough!

Regards,

34 posted on 04/03/2022 7:50:55 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No mention of the baptists who used to preach from the pulpit that negroes carried the mark of sun and deserved what they got


35 posted on 04/03/2022 7:59:25 AM PDT by Nifster (I’m see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They also played an active role in anti slavery, desegregation, and the Underground Railroad.

Where is that headline?


36 posted on 04/03/2022 8:13:03 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ahh the usual suspects......the Godless organizations of the World Council of Churches...this is nothing new


37 posted on 04/03/2022 8:15:09 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Blacks in Africa played a huge role in slavery...somewhere the narrative is getting real bassackwards.
38 posted on 04/03/2022 8:49:09 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: oldplayer

How about “SOME Churches Played an active role . . .?”
= = =

And maybe they were NOT real Churches if they did that.


39 posted on 04/03/2022 8:57:11 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Jewbacca

The full quote is worth posting:

“ I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull d*kes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh*t-kickers and Methodists!”


40 posted on 04/03/2022 9:11:30 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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