9 min
Slaveholding Religion vs. The Christianity of Christ Sabbathways
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- Religion & Spirituality
Selections from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) by Frederick Douglass. While Douglass naturally despised all slavemasters, having been an enslaved person himself in Maryland, no slavemaster drew his ire like the pious slavemaster. However, Douglass did not reject Christianity, far from it. Instead, he boldly differentiated between the "Christianity of Christ" or the true religion of Christianity as demonstrated by Jesus and that of "Slaveholding Religion" or the false hypocritical religion that masqueraded as Christianity.
This episode speaks to hypocrisy in religion and politics, the moral corruption of the Church and institutional corruption.
With music inspired by Drake, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson
Selections from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) by Frederick Douglass. While Douglass naturally despised all slavemasters, having been an enslaved person himself in Maryland, no slavemaster drew his ire like the pious slavemaster. However, Douglass did not reject Christianity, far from it. Instead, he boldly differentiated between the "Christianity of Christ" or the true religion of Christianity as demonstrated by Jesus and that of "Slaveholding Religion" or the false hypocritical religion that masqueraded as Christianity.
This episode speaks to hypocrisy in religion and politics, the moral corruption of the Church and institutional corruption.
With music inspired by Drake, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson
9 min