The Church of England has committed £100m to a fund it is setting up to compensate for having benefitted, over the years, from the slave trade. Unfortunately, the users’ manual - all 770,000 words of it - hasn’t been upgraded to acknowledge that it’s no longer OK to buy and sell people like farm machinery. Nowhere in the Bible is slavery condemned. When slavery is mentioned in the Old Testament, it’s generally to offer advice to masters about the practicalities of slave-ownership, and a warning not to sell fellow Jews into bondage. In the New Testament Jesus had many opportunities to condemn chattel slavery, though, significantly, he never did.
Licensed today: the gazebo in Lyddington village, Rutland…
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