Newsletter #7 – All about miracles

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Finally is here….Newsletter #6

Webpage edition by F. Gutierrez

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What about religion?

Quarterly newsletter of religious information

ISSUE 5

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Secular Vision

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What about RELIGION?

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December newsletter

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I Have A Secular Vision

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Consider All Possibilities

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Famous Atheists/Agnostics

  1. Famous Atheists/AgnosticsAyn Rand

    www.conservapedia.com/Ayn_Rand

    Ron Reagan, jr Son of President Ronald Reagan

    Ron Reagan undertook a different philosophical and political path from his father at an early age. At 12, he told his parents that he would not be going to church anymore because he was an atheist.[1]

    Bruce Lee

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dont-believe-in-god/2/

    Woody Allen

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dont-believe-in-god/2/

    Jack Nicholson

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dont-believe-in-god/4/

    Julianne Moore, John Malcovich

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dont-believe-in-god/5/

    Brad Pitt, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman,Angelina Jolie

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dontJ-believe-in-god/5/

    James Cameron

    http://www.lifedaily.com/story/20-celebs-who-dont-believe-in-god/7/

     Katharine Hepburn

    http://katharinehepburn.com/

    Lawrence Krauss

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html

    While you are here, why not visit http://www.beyondallreligion.net ?

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RELIGION and SLAVERY

The webpages “Slaveholding Presidents” and “Which U.S. Presidents Owned Slaves”  provide a list of slave-holding Chief Executives:

  • George Washington,1st President, Virginia
    2) Thomas Jefferson, 3rd, Virginia
    3) James Madison, 4th, Virginia
    4) James Monroe, 5th, Virginia
    5) Andrew Jackson, 7th, South Carolina/Tennessee
    6) Martin Van Buren, 8th, New York
    7) William Henry Harrison, 9th, Virginia
    8) John Tyler, 10th, Virginia
    9) James K. Polk, 11th, North Carolina
    10) Zachary Taylor, 12th, Virginia
    *) James Buchanan, 15th, Pennsylvania
    11) Andrew Johnson, 17th, North Carolina
    12) Ulysses S. Grant, 18th, Ohio

CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERYReligion and Slavery

 

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IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY INFORMATION

More Christianity as a Justification for Slavery

From:

https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/3535

Slave owners had many justifications for why holding people in bondage was acceptable. From the idea that African Americans were a lesser race who needed taking care of by white patriarchs to the economic justification, slave owners were always trying to find new ways to dispute those who disagreed with their choice to hold others in captivity. Charleston slave holders were no exception in attempting to find justifications to mask their guilt. Often, religion came into play, on both the slavery and anti-slavery sides of the debate. In 1835, at the end of two long articles about religion and slavery in the Charleston Mercury, it was said that both the Old and New Testament give permission to hold others as slaves. In the Old Testament, God and the Patriarchs approve. As for the New Testament, Jesus and the Apostles show that slavery is permissible. Therefore, slavery, to those who wrote the article, was not an anti-Christian institution. It was just the opposite. Furthermore, they added, it is impious to say slavery is anti-Christian because such a conclusion contradicted God.

  • Such extremist beliefs were common in the slavery/antislavery debate. Slaveholders believed that slavery would liberate Africans from their savage-like ways, especially if they were infused with Christianity. As religion ran deep through slavery, white Christian slaveholders argued that slavery was a necessary evil because it would control the sinful, less humane, black race.

It’s Ok to have slaves IF they are from a neighboring country, but not from your own country: Following the Bible, this seems to say an American can have a Canadian (s) as a slave (s)?

Leviticus 44:

44 ” ‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

 

 

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