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To: SuziQ
Under what OTHER religious teachings would women and slaves been better treated?

Doesn't this say something to you about religious teachings in general?

46 posted on 04/07/2002 11:23:10 PM PDT by The_Expatriate
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To: The_Expatriate
Doesn't this say something to you about religious teachings in general?

I always trust my instinct.

49 posted on 04/07/2002 11:29:15 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: The_Expatriate
Doesn't this say something to you about religious teachings in general?

It tells me that Christianity is unique in history, and that its teachings, if practiced in the real world, hold the promise of liberty and equality for EVERYONE in THIS life and Eternal Life in the hereafter for those who believe, accept and live it!

And America is unique because the teachings of Christianity, that same liberty and equality, were the underpinnings of this great political experiment along with the Greek ideas of democracy. It has not always worked smoothly in practice, it took a long time for slavery to be abolished, but abolished it was and the descendants of those slaves have been able to grow up in a place which affords them more opportunities than they would have anywhere else in the world! And though women were only given politcal power in the last century, we are in a unique position in the world in that we are able to be well educated, own property on our own and live our lives under our own control if we wish. And if we wish, we may decide to marry WITHOUT giving up our individual liberties, unlike many women in the rest of the world.

61 posted on 04/08/2002 2:36:14 PM PDT by SuziQ
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