Leftist domestic terrorism is on the rise

Boris Norris said:
Early Christianity is generally reckoned by church historians to begin with the ministry of Jesus ( c. 27–30) and end with the First Council of Nicaea (325). It is typically divided into two periods: the Apostolic Age ( c. 30–100, when the first apostles were still alive) and the Ante-Nicene Period ( c. 100–325).

It would appear you have your dates wrong by about 1000 years but who's checking these things. Not you.

The Christians, have been persecuted throughout history and even by Christians of there flock. That's why they call them sheep.

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I know the Church is much younger than the OT battles modern rubes use to try to slander Christians as if they fought dirty back then and deserve being reproached today for that. Enemies of God don't use good sense when coming up with nonsense to slander God and Christians. Another moronic narrative claims Christians fought the heathen to protect slavery when it was the other way around.
 
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mark francis said:
I know the Church is much younger than the OT battles modern rubes use to try to slander Christians as if they fought dirty back then and deserve being reproached today for that. Enemies of God don't use good sense when coming up with nonsense to slander God and Christians. Another moronic narrative claims Christians fought the heathen to protect slavery when it was the other way around.
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the south was full of christians who used the bible to justify slavery. that's a fact.

sorry if facts make you look stupid :)
 
mark francis said:
I know the Church is much younger than the OT battles modern rubes use to try to slander Christians as if they fought dirty back then and deserve being reproached today for that.
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They do. If you read the OT there is no alternative but that conclusion.
The Vatican did deals with Hitler and Mussolini if you want to upgrade what a filthy lot of parasites they are.
mark francis said:
Enemies of God don't use good sense when coming up with nonsense to slander God and Christians.
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God is irrelevant so don't inject that rubbish. Either it was done or it wasn't and it WAS done. It's not about slander, it's about it being a fact.
mark francis said:
Another moronic narrative claims Christians fought the heathen to protect slavery when it was the other way around.
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Here's some bits from a quick search. Would you like to apologise now or tomorrow after you've been to confession?

They were property but could also own material goods. Early Christian authors maintained the spiritual equality of slaves and free persons while accepting slavery as an institution. Early modern papal decrees allowed the enslavement of the unbelievers, though popes denounced slavery from the 15th century onward.

Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. In the early years of Christianity, slavery was an established feature of the economy and society in the Roman Empire, and this persisted in different forms and with regional differences well into the Middle Ages.

Many of us view the Catholic Church as a Northern church. But the Catholic Church established its foothold in the South and relied on plantations and slave labor to help finance the livelihoods of its priests and nuns, and to support its schools and religious projects. This is history that we all should know.
 
During the period of American slavery, how did slaveholders manage to balance their religious beliefs with the cruel facts of the “peculiar institution“? As shown by the following passages — adapted from Noel Rae’s new book The Great Stain, which uses firsthand accounts to tell the story of slavery in America — for some of them that rationalization was right there in the Bible.
And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole world overspread. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in
the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.”
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Despite some problems with this story—What was so terrible about seeing Noah drunk? Why curse Canaan rather than Ham? How long was the servitude to last? Surely Ham would have been the same color as his brothers?—it eventually became the foundational text for those who wanted to justify slavery on Biblical grounds. In its boiled-down, popular version, known as “The Curse of Ham,” Canaan was dropped from the story, Ham was made black, and his descendants were made Africans.
 
Bishop Stephen Elliott, of Georgia, also knew how to look on the bright side. Critics of slavery should “consider whether, by their interference with this institution, they may not be checking and impeding a work which is manifestly Providential. For nearly a hundred years the English and American Churches have been striving to civilize and Christianize Western Africa, and with what result? Around Sierra Leone, and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a few natives have been made Christians, and some nations have been partially civilized; but what a small number in comparison with the thousands, nay, I may say millions, who have learned the way to Heaven and who have been made to know their Savior through the means of African slavery! At this very moment there are from three to four millions of Africans, educating for earth and for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States—learning the very best lessons for a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-control, of obedience, of perseverance, of adaptation of means to ends; learning, above all, where their weakness lies, and how they may acquire strength for the battle of life. These considerations satisfy me with their condition, and assure me that it is the best relation they can, for the present, be made to occupy.”
 
“Southern ministers had written the majority of all published defenses of slavery,” Jemison reminds us. For these ministers, slavery not only had divine sanction, it was a necessary part of Christianity. This was because slavery was defined as akin to a marriage: the “power of slave owners over slaves paralleled the power of husbands over wives and of parents over children.”
 
The father/master was supposed to be a benevolent and paternalistic overseer of all family (and property) members. After all, the New Testament’s “injunctions for slaves to obey their masters appeared alongside instructions for wives to obey their husbands.”

This hierarchy placed white men (including ministers) at the top, because slaves (and white women and children) were incapable of ordering themselves
 
As abolitionism gathered strength, white Southerners repositioned themselves from an acceptance of slavery as a necessary evil to defending it as a positive good. Theological justification from their ministers allowed them to believe that “not only did God sanction slavery, but slavery’s supporters were better Christians and more faithful interpreters of Biblical text than were their opponents.” The slave-owning class was small, but it was supported by “the overwhelming majority of churches and ministers.”
 
mark francis said:
Enemies of God don't use good sense when coming up with nonsense to slander God and Christians.
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It hardly takes enemies to point-out Christians' preference for their (own) auditory-handicaps.
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