It’s likely you’re familiar with Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. Or, should I say, the hoax that some kind of creature inhabits Scotland’s Loch Ness. But this historical hoax actually goes back quite a ways. This makes it a subject of historical inquiry, even if Nessie the Loch Ness Monster is as real as elves […]
Tag: Christianity
American Christianity & Providential Design, Part 2
In our last blog, we introduced the religious doctrine of providential design. Now, it is time to examine all the ways this religious viewpoint poisoned attitudes in American Christianity toward African Americans in the US for many years. We left off by stating that it absolved slaveholders from individual responsibility for the horrors of slavery. […]