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And I did not really know what the Lord would show me, but as time went on, I began to get the picture much clearer. January 3rd, the year 2000, we break ground for that Healing Centre in Dallas Texas. [Ground-breaking has yet to take place.] It's going to have Healing Gardens with Healing Statues of Biblical Healing saints from the Old Testament. It's going to have a Healing Fountain an Eternal Healing Fire...
-- Benny Hinn, "This Is Your Day," August 24, 1999
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News: New fight, old foe: Slavery
Posted on Tuesday, February 20 @ 19:45:00 PST by Virgil |
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By Jane Lampman
Zach Hunter was only 12 years old when he became an abolitionist. During Black History Month three years ago, as he read about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, he thought he, too, would have fought against slavery if he'd lived back then. But to his astonishment, Zach found soon afterward that people are still held as slaves today.
"When I learned there were about 27 million slaves in the world, it blew me away," says the high school freshman from Atlanta. "I wondered what I could do."
He noticed loose change lying around the house, and a project was born. He formed Loose Change to Loosen Chains, and with the help of friends, collected some $10,000 to fight modern-day slavery.
This year, Zach is part of a much broader antislavery initiative, serving as student spokesman for "The Amazing Change." Next month marks the 200th anniversary of the end of the British slave trade, which was spurred by a young parliamentarian and reformer, William Wilberforce. A feature film on Wilberforce, "Amazing Grace," opens in US theaters nationwide on Feb. 23. The filmmakers are partnering with modern antislavery organizations to enlist students and others in a contemporary abolitionist movement. (See: www.theamazingchange.com).
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Re: New fight, old foe: Slavery (Score: 1)
 by Mick on Wednesday, February 21 @ 05:53:26 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Virgil,
I found this article very interesting. It makes me wonder why there is not more done in our area to address the on going problem with slavery around the world (Although I may just be ignorant of efforts locally). Think about it, within 10 minutes of Xenia there is Wilberforce, Ohio the home of Wilberforce University and Central State University, one of the nation's "historically black universities" Central State is also the home of the National Afro-American History Museum. It seems to me the area would have a noticeable grass roots movement to change modern slavery. |
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Re: New fight, old foe: Slavery (Score: 1)
 by Ed on Wednesday, February 21 @ 11:00:08 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yes, thanks to our politically correct world, we are not allowed to mention the millions of black slaves held by those peace-loving Muslims in the Middle East. Few people know that Britain fought a war (after their abolition efforts) against the Muslims to stop the slave trade. Even America sent Marines to try to stop the Islamic slave trade. To no avail. The religion of peace overcame these efforts.
The sex trade is also a horrific example of sick, depraved individuals who would rather have sex with an 8 year old child than with an adult. It must somehow be more arousing or some such rot. I've seen documentaries done regarding the number of American businessmen who travel to Thailand every so often to partake of the child-sex industry that is legal there. Anything to promote tourism, eh?
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Re: New fight, old foe: Slavery (Score: 1)
 by Islamaphobe on Wednesday, February 21 @ 13:44:29 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | The article says that slavery is illegal everywhere in the world but still exists. It emphasizes contemporary instances of sex slavery, but I saw no mention in it of the connection between slavery and ISLAM. There is no mention of the Sudan or other locations in Islamic Africa where slavery still exists. Slavery is condoned in the Quran and was practiced and approved by Mohammed. Since the Quran is presented as the very word of Allah and is held by most Islamic theologians to be as applicable to the world of today as to the world of the seventh century, it is arguable that the existence of slavery continues to be acceptable within Islam, though a good Muslim will no doubt argue that Islamic slavery is/was much more humane than the Infidel version. Unfortunately, the writer for the Christian Science Monitor, Jane Lampman, is, I fear, too PC to bring up the problem of the historical link between slavery and Islam.
It was no accident of history that the movement to end slavery that gained such power under Wilberforce and others received its impetus from Christianity. And, incidentally, a great many white Europeans were carried into slavery by Muslims in North Africa, Asia, and even the Balkans, while many of those involved in the slave trade historically were Muslims. Yet it seems to me that in our PC world, it is the slavery practiced by white Europeans that generates all the attention and attendant guilt feelings. Some perspective please! |
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