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They kept us as slaves: AP reveals claims against church

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https://apnews.com/52dc4fbe2fb64cec98740ad1e62b2115
SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and money were confiscated by church leaders — for safekeeping, he said he was told.

Trapped in a foreign land, he said he was forced to work 15 hours a day, usually for no pay, first cleaning warehouses for the secretive evangelical church and later toiling at businesses owned by senior ministers. Any deviation from the rules risked the wrath of church leaders, he said, ranging from beatings to shaming from the pulpit.

“They trafficked us up here. They knew what they were doing. They needed labor and we were cheap labor — hell, free labor,” Oliveira said.

An Associated Press investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Latin America’s largest nation to siphon a steady flow of young laborers who came on tourist and student visas to its 35-acre compound in rural Spindale.
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This is some extreme ****ery, right here.
 
There's not a lot of churches I support being burned to the ground but these guys managed it.
 
Slavery is a permissible form of punishment under the Constitution. Sounds fitting for anyone and everyone involved in this.
 
This appears to be the church's website:
Word of Faith Fellowship |

Appears they have/are responding to the AP article.

With what appears to be multiple youtube videos, most of them with titles that paraphrase to "person(s) who accused us are liars".
 
The detestable things man does in the name of God is nothing new...
 
What does this have to do with Trump?
 
JasperL said:
That's an odd reply...:doh
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I was just wondering because I thought all threads now had to slam Trump.

Or maybe it just seems that way.
 
Slavery is common in the Bible. Jesus probably walked by a thousand slaves on the daily and didn't really notice a single one enough to heal them. As a matter of fact, Jesus used a lot of master-servant talk in his preaching. The servant always being subservient to the master, never rebelling and demanding freedom. Always too afraid of punishment. So yeah, I can see how this would have happened with a 2000 year old semitic religion. Hell, Muslims still do it. I think the only ones from the desert trilogy who aren't down for slavery are modern Jews...

...and we all know why.
 
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Hatuey said:
Slavery is common in the Bible. Jesus probably walked by a thousand slaves on the daily and didn't really notice a single one enough to heal them. As a matter of fact, Jesus used a lot of master-servant talk in his preaching. The servant always being subservient to the master, never rebelling and demanding freedom. Always too afraid of punishment. So yeah, I can see how this would have happened with a 2000 year old semitic religion. Hell, Muslims still do it. I think the only ones from the desert trilogy who aren't down for slavery are modern Jews...

...and we all know why.
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Not a big bible scholar here, but you say Jesus didn't notice the slaves enough to heal them. Were the slaves ailing?
 
Revoke their tax exempt status, confiscate all their property to be given to their victims then life imprisonment for all involved
Seems like a start right there
 
Mason66 said:
I was just wondering because I thought all threads now had to slam Trump.

Or maybe it just seems that way.
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That's some heavy snowflakery.
 
Rexedgar said:
Not a big bible scholar here, but you say Jesus didn't notice the slaves enough to heal them.
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Actually, there isn't a single mention of Jesus even coming across a slave... in a time when they were absurdly common.

Were the slaves ailing?
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Couldn't tell you, the only time people recorded Jesus talking about servants was when he talked about them being subservient. Not exactly a big advocate for abolition, that 'Chui. You gonna argue that slaves back then were tip-top?
 
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