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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4168)	5/4/2010 11:15:17 AM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

"I have no reason to acknowledge the Popes and Christian churches as slaveholders." What a PHONY! There have been scores of posts showing the catholic involvement in slavery. Furthermore, the issue is not in any way controversial. It is common knowledge and hundreds of books and documentations have addressed the issue "Soon the Church would become the largest slave owner in the Roman Empire. Bishops themselves owned slaves and accepted the usual conventions. So did other churchmen. Slave collars dating from around AD 400 have been found in Sardinia, stamped with the sign of the cross and the name 'Felix the Archdeacon' . Pagan slaves who wanted to become Christians required permission from their masters. For many centuries, indeed right up to recent times, servile birth was a bar to ordination, and the Church confirmed the acceptability of slavery in many other ways. For example, the Church Council of Châlons in AD 813 decreed that slaves belonging to different owners could not marry without their owners' consent. . It had been common for pagan Greeks and Romans to emancipate their slaves but the emancipation of the Church's slaves was declared impossible - on the grounds that the slaveowners were not the clergy but God Himself, and only the slave owner could legally dispose of his goods. Church slaves were thus inalienable property (This principal would be enshrined in Cannon Law in respect of Monastic slaves under the Decretum gratiani c 1140) . The Church found new reasons to take people into slavery..." heretication.info I don't know why you are such a phony. Why can't you just discuss issues with integrity?? "You even claimed Stalin might not have been an atheist! LOL Again, you INTENTIONALLY MISREPRESENT. What is the matter with you???