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Also, many liberal churches, as well as the Black church generally, and many Jewish rabbis, were instrumental in the civil rights struggle. Also the Nation of Islam, although they are hard core conservatives.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... -
@ che That's not really the definition of "progressive". They seem to have been fighting for the rights of "their people" first and foremost which simply coincided with a wider human rights movememnt.Comment
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The proof is in the pudding, Bereta. You can be the most reactionary thug in your ideology, but what matters at the end of the day is what you do. In any event, MLK and others like him were also strongly against the Vietnam War as well as big in the anti-poverty movement. There are plenty of left Christian churches in the world.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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That's generally what it means when used in a social historical sense.Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
abolition of what? I guess slavery."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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In places where slavery existed, I guess it's self explanatory. In others not
(yes yes i know what happened ages ago in those other places as well)
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You guys had slavery too.
The only reason you stopped was because you stopped being powerful
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There was no slavery when the modern Greek state was formed though. So it's completely alien.Comment
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That's because you guys were formed at the tail end of slavery anyway.Comment
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You were too if I'm not mistaken.Comment
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Weren't (some of) your people slaves of the Turks before the league of heroic English poets freed you?Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
There was no slavery when the modern Greek state was formed though. So it's completely alien."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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No, we were formed hundreds of years before that.Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
You were too if I'm not mistaken.Comment
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So the US was formed before it was liberated by the French?
First time I hear it.
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The colonies were.Comment
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Thank you
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