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Confessions of a Spanking Abolitionist
http://dulcefamily.blogspot.com/2011/10/confessions-of-spanking-abolitionist.html
“…I imagine that for some of the early abolitionists in the South, the process was similar. They reminded themselves that most Christians around them believed that the Bible supported slavery. They minimized it by saying that the pastor only taught that slavery was Biblical once in awhile. Mostly it was just included in passing references or anecdotes. I think that they knew and understood the culture, because they had grown up in it. They probably had people that they loved and respected who were slaveholders. They didn’t want to act out of pride or arrogance. Perhaps they tried to tell themselves that it wasn’t a foundational point of doctrine–just one of those areas where people had to follow their own conscience…”
“…But eventually, the conviction would grow in their hearts that how we view other human beings, created in God’s image just like us, our brothers and sisters in Christ, really does matter…”
“…I don’t want a civil war with my brothers and sisters. But I am firmly convinced that how we treat our children is a human rights issue. The culture in most of the US sees them as property, as less deserving of protection because of their age, as less than full persons, and then uses Scripture to justify it…”
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