PART THREE Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:54:24 +0530 From: Adolfo Mascarenhas <adca...@gmail.com>
The Bible and Floods In the book of Genesis, Noah condemns Canaan (Son of Ham) to perpetual servitude: "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers" (Gn 9:25). Authors including David Curp notes that this episode has been used to justify racialized <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racialization> slavery, since "Christians and even some Muslims eventually identified Ham's descendants as black Africans". Anthony Pagden explicitly states that "This reading of the Book of Genesis merged easily into a medieval iconographic tradition in which devils were always depicted as black walking on two feet” and having a tail. Pseudo-scientific was always claiming that that African skull shapes. In my University days an honours undergraduate days I a real Goan read :::We Africans :::::, That’s when I came across Dolichocephalism meaning that the head that is longer than wider Index of 75 Please note what is the latest regarding laws, theology, genealogy, or natural science”” Is it really that ONE PART OF THE HUMAN RACE SHOULD LIVE IN PERPETUAL SLAVERY “” GOANS who go to OLD GOA see the ruins of ST AUGUSTINE. He is in Heaven…that is why we call him a Saint. He is as African as can be !!!!! We did have a really mad Goan, in this Goanet Forum fortunately he is in a Straight Jacket ::::Hold it lets get back to the sons of Noah ( Presumably he had daughters) Apparently the Canaanites <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites> settled in Canaan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan_(region)>, and not in Africa. Ham two other sons, Cush and Put, ( Could be related to PUTIN ) most likely the two brothers settled in Africa. Noah's curse only applied to Canaan, and according to biblical commentator, Gleason L. Archer, this curse was fulfilled when Joshua conquered Canaan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan_(region)> in 1400 BC.[8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_slavery#cite_note-Archer-8> :::: Feel free to check my citation) Although there is considerable doubt about the nature and extent of the conquest described in the early chapters of the book of Joshua. Flood story did supply a rationale for the subjugation of the Canaanites. It is possible that the naming of 'Canaan' in the post-Flood story is itself a reflection of the situation of warfare between peoples in the time when the written form of the story took shape. Some forms of servitude was ignored by the Torah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah>. Hebrew legislation maintained kinship rights even made allowances for Jewish servants learning the job….but they could not be kept in that position for more than seven years, women and girls had marriage rights and even physical and eventually even freedom of movement and liberty (Leviticus 25:39-41) Let me look closer and see how Jews had laws about the treatment of slaves by the Jews. Jews could be punished if they beat a slave causing death within a day or two,and would have to let a slave go free if they destroyed a slave's eye or tooth, force a slave to work on the Sabbath,etc Unlike the Burmese Buddhist who treat Muslim worse than slaves …..among the Jews if a slave escaped from heathen and took refuge among the Israelites, he was free and could not be abused …..I suppose in this millennium no throwing bananas or making monkey sounds or money gestures. A person owning debts could volunteer to be a slave for a fixed period until the debt was paid but there was no question of starving or treating him like an animal with no shelter In the post Floyd period lets see the ground rules If a master harmed a slave in such a way that the slave died within 24 to 48 hours, it was to be *avenged perhaps even by death * There were rules for celebrating the Sabbath and even slaves were permitted to rest and relax All very good but if you were not a Jew…..you had no rights Next Part Lets go and learn from Monkeys and Apes….Darwin Adolfo In Quepem ...lots of real Monkeys ...eating good large mangoes !!