Petr Swedock
1 min readAug 17, 2020

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So it was God then, who wanted to spread the love of Jesus to those of a darker hue

This is a pretty good example of an etymological fallacy where some use in time differs from the originating use of the word or words.

Slavery, at the time of writing of the Bible, wasn’t based upon notions or perceptions of race. In fact, it would not be so based until the advent of the British Empire. The term ‘white slavery’ is a brutally stupid misreading of the history of slavery. Anybody could have been a slave in ancient Greece. Anybody could have been a slave in ancient Rome, including Roman citizens had they been conquered by Carthage…

The moral corruption of America lies not only in the market of buying and selling human beings but stacking atop that notion the noxious idea that a specific type of human is deserving and worthy only of slavery.

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Petr Swedock
Petr Swedock

Written by Petr Swedock

An unwieldy mix of the sacred and the profane, uneasily co-existing in an ever more fragile shell. Celebrating no-shave Nov since Sept 1989.

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