The Slave Bible was the most interesting part of both the reading and the lecture for me. What the abridgement of it tells me about those who enslaved people and give them this new Bible is that they know that they were wrong in their actions of enslavement. If you have to take out 80% of a book in order to justify something to a group of people with very limited reading abilities, then you must know that there isn’t much substance to your argument. It extra doesn’t help that it’s the most holy scripture to Christians. If we know one thing it is that when reading the Bible you need context. This applies to all issues in the Bible, not just slavery. The vastly different interpretations of the Bible by people who dedicate their whole lives to it show how the version of the Bible we have today is already vague in many parts and so removing as much context as they did is just about nullifies everything. This to me is just about the most unholy thing that you can do, use the Bible to blind a whole group of people from the true word of God.
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