In reality, God used slavery to deliver Africans from ignorance of the One True God. Again, suffering is used to bring people to God. It is a common theme.
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Right. The loss of freedom, whippings, rape, mutilations, wretched poverty, dividing of families, deprivation, disrespect and degradation were all the omnipotent, good and loving God's way to bring his African "children" closer to him.
You are a warped and sick little person, Lisa.
God's sure a champ, isn't He? HE could be nice enough to show them the truth in a humane, loving way. But that would fit in with His benevolent image, wouldn't it?
Sorry to burst your bubble, L, but God had nothing to do with slavery. It was a purely human creation motivated by the desire for cheap and plentiful labour, and racist attitudes towards non-Europeans.
I've heard it before, and I bet I'll here it again. In the meantime, allow me to tell you that this theory is
TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT, RETROACTIVE HISTORY, AND ARROGANCE ON THE GREATEST SCALE KNOWN TO MAN. FUCK OFF AND DIE, YOU WORTHLESS ASSHOLE.
<<<God used slavery to deliver Africans from ignorance of the One True God.>>>
No, no, no. Humans who wanted free labor used their idea of the "one true god" to justify slavery and all the horrors that went along with it. You've got it a little mixed up.
See, most people would've just sent these people a little decorative basket of flowers, or possibly taken them out for lunch to prove their existence. Not God though, he decides it would be easier to enslave an entire race of people for centuries and foster feelings of bigotry and intolerence towards said group of unbelievers.
Oh that wild and crazy God, what'll he do next? Take a huge, steaming dump on all those Africans' chests while raping their mothers?
Really? So somewhere in the process of being stuffed into an airless cargo hold, cheek to jowel with the sick and dying, likely covered in your own filth and that of others, to be transported to a foriegn world totally unknown to you only to be treated as sub-human chattel brings people closer to God? Imagine that...must have been the beginnings of liberation theology. Incidentally, white slaveholders made a point of making sure any black slaves they had were kept in the dark about Jesus, his kingdom, and its implications about the equality of mankind. Also, if learning about and accepting God is a Good Thing, then why did the slaves on the Amistad revolt, kill their captors, and try to sail back to Africa?
Confused?
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