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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Jesuits & Georgetown Repent

An excerpt from CNN -

In emotional service, Jesuits and Georgetown repent for slave trading
By Daniel Burke

(CNN)There is wide gulf, Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845, between Christianity proper and the "slaveholding religion of this land." One is "good, pure and holy," the other corrupt and wicked, the "climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds."

"We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries and cradle-plunderers for church members," Douglass wrote in "Life of an American Slave."

For Douglass, as for other African-Americans, the sin of slavery was intolerable; the complicity of Christians unforgivable.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/living/georgetown-slavery-service/index.html

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