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  • All of these claims could be true, but even so, it does not mean that the Bible rejects slavery or that the church has rejected slavery historically. Many of the churches in the American south explicitly endorse slavery before the civil war. Not only due to biblical scripture but in order to preserve their hierarchical society.

    There are a number of lgbtq affirming churches today in America. Some are splitting up over this issue. I can point to verses in the Bible such as when Jesus tells people to become eunuchs or when Paul says “there is is neither Jew nor gentile nor male nor female” and say that the Bible allows lgbtq people to live normally. But if in 50 years, lgbtq people are accepted by the church, and I said that it was always that way, that would be intellectually dishonest. The tradition of eunuchs that people would point out in history was condemned by the council of Nicaea around 500 AD and marginalization would continue and has continued today. I’d be intellectually dishonest if I said that the church had always respected lgbtq people.

    Likewise, it’s the same with slavery. It wasn’t condemned and it was supported by scriptures and the people who practice Christianity. Christian countries would conquer land and take slaves. It’s intellectually dishonest to say that the church has always condemned slavery or that it was the majority position until recently.












  • Well I missed the gender part.

    Gender is likewise a social construct. Every human, male or female could theoretically develop into either phenotype regardless of physical characteristics that they eventually do develop. All of that is thrown out the window though when you examine our roles in society. We could have the choice of not distinguishing between us at all. Our thoughts and actions on gender have changed substantially over the past few hundred years. Between clothes and fashion and family structures, how we look at gender changes.

    1. I self-identify as a woman. I am transgender too, but some transgender women don’t actually identify as transgender if they transitioned really young. Society at large would not treat these people as “transgender women” and merely women

    2. How society treats me is a bit more up in the air though. Many people do recognize me as a woman. I have the same social role as a single woman generally has. I wear women’s clothes, I have women’s hobbies, I talk, I act, and other people treat me like a woman. I’ve even experienced misogyny, as people will talk to my male colleagues and ignore me completely. However, some people tend to just stay away from me and pretend I don’t exist. They’d say that they were gay for liking me. But this is because I’m part of a different minority, being transgender rather than because I am a woman

    Transgender women are indeed women. They will experience the same joys and the same struggles as women do. But of course they’re still transgender and they will experience the same struggles as every transgender person does.


  • So

    Race is what we call a social construct. There isn’t anything substantial physically separating white people from black people or anything else. Really it’s a matter of culture and shared history. There are a couple of things that make somebody actually part of that group.

    1. How they see themselves. Do they recognize themselves as a part of this group?

    2. How society sees them. Would society recognize them as part of that group? This includes their history and ancestry as well as how society treats them based off of their looks and culture

    I can’t say for 100% certainty that she doesn’t see herself as black, but I still am 99% sure. Her own actions are incredibly unserious and I don’t think she has any real connections with the history or ancestry of Brazilian black people. She’s never had to live as that class of people either.

    Of course this is a very broad oversimplification. I’m not black but I am part of a different minority