Today most people see Christianity
as the modern day religion, believing it will relieve them of their problems. In
history we learn that’s not always the case. Christianity was occasionally used
to control people who did not have a clear apprehension of it. Frederick
Douglass begins to see and understand this as a slave. Frederic Douglass saw
one of his masters beat a young black women slave and use a scripture quote to
justify his action. Frederick Douglass replies, “I have seen him tie a lame
young women, and whip her with a heavy cow skin upon her naked shoulders,
causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed,
he would quote a Scripture” (Douglass 261). As time went on Frederick Douglass
heedfulness becomes keen in the white man definition of Christianity. Fredrick Douglass
believes Christianity is a faith for all people of color and not a tool to
control but an inspiration to love and heal the broken boundaries of separation
and slavery. He makes it plainly clear in his reply, “To be the friend of the
one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other; I love the pure, peaceable,
and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt,
slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical
Christianity of this land” (Douglass 289).
As citizens of the United States we
should have faith to love, respect, and unify one another no matter what color
he or she is. If we are going to be a leading country of examples for others we
can’t lead from behind.
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