Re: [asa] Sin, animals, and salvation

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, John Burgeson (ASA member) wrote:

> The faith does change over the years. Once women were 2nd class people and non-whites not people at all. That was part of Xtianity. But it was a false part, just as the current segregation of our gay and lesbian friends is.
>

I am not sure what you mean by being part of Christianity. Because some
Christians tried to justify the mistreatment of nonwhites that was common
in their culture by twisting Scripture, does that make it part of
Christianity? In the early history of Christianity as recorded in the book
of Acts one of the first issues that was tackled was that of making
distinctions based on ethnicity. Such distinctions were strongly
condemned.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Wed Nov 19 16:34:41 2008