George Whitefield's statue taken down all because he owned slaves

[SaintCody777]

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My Weleyan and Holiness Movement brethern should be especially ticked off about this madness. Especially a statue of one of your movements' founders was torn down.
The statue of a famous Calvinist founder of the Methodist movement, and a great Christian revivalist, George Whitefield, has been torn down by BLM protesters and rioters all because he owned slaves and believed that slavery should continue. What people stop and don't find out from there was that Whitefield treated slaves with compassion. Many people, taking the Bible as just the "good book" believes that slavery is a sin. Well, many OT prophets owned slaves. Even in Ephesians 6, slaves were instructed to obey their masters. 2 Peter goes even further telling slaves to be obedient even to slave masters that mistreat them.
The point was slavery was the norm of many nations if the world. It's just that the concept of black slavery came up with superior racism, after the New World was settled. Now that motive is actually IS unbiblical. White selection over blacks was this Darwinistic philosophy that plagued the world BEFORE Darwin was even born. And what most people didn't know was that before the emancipation proclamation, black slaveowners did exist.
The reason why BLM wants statues of anyone who merely owns slaves torn down is that they want to cause chaos and change history to fit their warped ideology.

 

[Tolworth John]

The reason why BLM wants statues of anyone who merely owns slaves torn down is that they want to cause chaos and change history to fit their warped ideology

That and they want to project there ideas of right and wrong back in time, judging all who do not conform, except of course the mistreated blacks, no one judges the black nations, tribal states [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] sold the slaves to the white/European slave traders.
Don't leave out the Islamic slave traders who were active long before Europe was, raiding as far north as Cornwall, England for slaves and trading untill the colonisation of East Africa put a stop to it.

 

[Tolworth John]

Have been looking at a few articles , written well before the BLM crusade, at Whitefield and Edwards attitude to and holding of slaves.
It is interesting to see the blind spot they had between a Saviour who died to free all people from slavery to sin and there willingness to support slavery.

Clearly societies attitudes towards slavery and the economic benefits of slavery influenced them.
My concern is what attitudes or benefits from society today is influencing us?

 

[JIMINZ]

Two sides battle, one side weakens, capitulates, and runs away.

The other side sees this weakness, becomes stronger, bolder and pursues killing them.

What we are witnessing is an Ideological War on Democracy, Freedom and our American way of life Today, not what happened 400 years ago.

Does anyone with half a brain cell believe for one second, when ALL of the Statues have been torn down and All of the places names have been changed, it will stop?

 

[paul1149]

They have a severe myopia. Therefore it's Black live matter, not all lives matter including blacks. Accordingly it's Whitfield owned slaves, so all the good he did doesn't matter; he owned slaves so his memory must be erased. This divisive and destructive spirit will never be satisfied.

They also seem to have a profound historical ignorance, in that they are taking down statues of abolitionists and even Lincoln. Of course, the admitted marxist founders leading the movement know exactly what they're doing, but the rioter in the street apparently has no historical grid to understand his actions, thanks to our schools and universities. The marxists know that if they can erase our past they can succeed in reidentifying who we are. Any chaos they can cause on the way is just gravy.