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This forum has always been about truth, not fantasy Charles. Illogical
generalities like "pre and post Christian slavery was different" does not
make any sense; it does not raise the level of discourse. There is ample
information which I suggest you read in the bible (what Christians refer
to as the "Old Testament") about slaves and how they are to be treated and
there is voluminous writing about pagan slaves and slaves which were the
result of the European wars which was not a conspiracy of the Christian
Church and Antebellum slavery in America. None of it resembles your
description. Racism was never hard-coded into slavery though it was a
componet of it. Freedom is not codified in the Vatican but it is codified
in the U.S. Constition - even as it was written later, like the 14th
Amendment, etc. Ravings and rants about the Church could have legitimacy
for a lot of things but not this.
If you are going to refer to historical facts, keep it objective and cite
your cites. When you claim to know something we don't, give your proof,
not your rant.
As for genetics, it sounds as-if you are quoting from ideas of the Third
Reich or from the Klu Klux Klan?
Hank
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Charles W. Smith wrote:
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> Pre and post christian slavery was different. Pre-christian slavery was
> chattel slavery, like racial slavery here in the USA before 1865.
> Converting the chattel slaves to serfs upon the establishment of
> christianity as the Roman state religion was approximately the same as the
> conversion of the chattel slaves of the American confederacy to public
> property slaves after the civil war. This conversion to serfdom sucked in
> all the remaining free commoners in the empire into serfdom, thus enslaving
> the entire non-noble population, which lasted for 1500 years. The
> conversion of the American racial slaves to public property sucked in all of
> the free Negroes into this slavery expansion scam, no matter where they
> resided, and they were frozen in this status until 1965. The "lords" were
> christians in name only to facilitate the control system. They ignored all
> of the rules of christianity which were designed to control their slaves.
> Killing a slave was not murder for them. Raping a slave was not rape for
> them. Stealing from a slave was not theft for them. "Adultery" was for the
> purpose controlling the genetic character of the slaves. The ban on lying
> was to keep them correctly informed as of the doings of their slaves. And
> much more was simply peacekeeping among the slaves, keeping them in enforced
> poverty and ignorance, keeping them meek and obedient and industrious for
> the profits of the lords.
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