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Subject: historical perspective of religious insanity
tBart,
After a short sea battle in the Mediterranean
in the 1400’s the Portuguese overcame a Muslim ship (aka Moors)
and were going to take them as slaves and as
bargaining tools for Moorish-held captives.
The Moors on the boat had black slaves on board.
Muslim Moors traded in slaves, as did Europeans,
but the Moors used black slaves the majority
of the time.
The Moors told the Portuguese to take the blacks
and use them as they either had no souls or did not
worship the One True God as both Muslims and
Christians did; in other words they were considered subhuman.
There’s that religious insanity...
By 1441 the first slaves were brought to Portugal from Mauritania; by 1444 a town was built exclusively for the slave trade, Lagos, Portugal.
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull
Dum Diversas,
granting Afonso V of Portugal the right to reduce
any "Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers"
to hereditary slavery which legitimized slave trade under Catholic beliefs
of that time. This approval of slavery was reaffirmed
and extended in his Romanus
Pontifex bull of 1455. These papal bulls
came to serve as a justification for the subsequent
era of slave trade and European colonialism.
F-ing Catholics - througout history they were
there to fuck-up and add to the misery of others.
That Dum Diversas reads:
"We grant you [Kings of Spain and Portugal] by these present documents,
with our Apostolic Authority,
full and free permission to invade, search
out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and
any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ
wherever they may be, as well as
their kingdoms, duchies,
counties, principalities, and other property
[...] and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery.[3]
Ain't that just like a Catholic?
Who the fuck gave them permission to allow slavery?
I've said it many times - *I* am more Christlike
that those fake-ass sons of bitches.
And here’s the religious insanity formalized…
By claiming people were less than human you certainly couldn’t also believe they were your intellectual equal.
Even Thomas Jefferson, whom you and I could agree
was an intellectual man, and who found Sally Hemmings desirable,
corresponded with a free black named Benjamin
Bannecker, who sent Jefferson an astronomical almanac he had written.
In his 1793 almanac, Banneker included letters sent between Thomas Jefferson and himself.[11]
Jefferson writes back to him and in part of the letter basically says blacks are inferior (imbecility?)but may eventually raise themselves up:
“I can add with truth that no body wishes more
ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both
of their body
& mind to what it ought to be, as fast as
the imbecillity of their present existence, and other circumstance which
cannot be neglected, will admit.”
I admit to be shocked by Jefferson’s attitude even when presented with evidence to the contrary – Jefferson even doubted the man after he died!
And the attitude continues………
Sel in Jax
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