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Atheism and forced labor (view source)
Revision as of 05:06, February 23, 2012
, 05:06, February 23, 2012→Atheism and spiritual slavery
Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8: 34-36). The popular Christian YouTube creators [[Shockofgod]] and Jezuzfreek777 point out that atheism keeps people under spiritual slavery and Christianity gives people liberty.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ti0jxz8DU Atheism promotes slavery]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsABl3lKlo Atheist are slaves]</ref>
Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8: 34-36). The popular Christian YouTube creators [[Shockofgod]] and Jezuzfreek777 point out that atheism keeps people under spiritual slavery and Christianity gives people liberty.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Ti0jxz8DU Atheism promotes slavery]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsABl3lKlo Atheist are slaves]</ref>
== Daily Mail declared that Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and slavery]] and [[Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade]]
[[File:Slave auction.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that Richard "Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]]
On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that "Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins is being called to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref>
The ''Daily Mail'' reported:
{{cquote|Ancestors of secularist campaigner Richard Dawkins made their fortune from the slave trade, it has been revealed.
The outspoken atheist, who once branded the Catholic Church 'evil', is the direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in [[Jamaica]] until he died in 1744.
His 400-acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago...
Richard's son, Henry, married into another of Jamaica's powerful slave trading families and left 1,013 slaves worth £40,736 when he died 1744.
The links with slavery continue down the family tree and in 1796 another ancestor, James Dawkins, voted against [[William Wilberforce]]'s plans to abolish the slave trade<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>}}
([[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]]).
== See also ==
== See also ==