MInTheGap

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

…Because the dark doesn’t really exist.

One of the things that I muse on from time to time is the whole way we represent the world around us, and how accurate or inaccurate our descriptions are.  Here are some others:

• Dark: Absence of Light
• Cold: Absence of Heat
• Vacuum: Absence of Air
• Evil: Absence of Good

I’m sure you can name others.  What’s interesting is that when you get to that last one.  I have to admit that the last one is one I struggle over.  Is evil really the absence of Good– or a degree of missing good.  And I have to agree with it.

And here’s why:

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Slavery in 2007

Although slavery officially ended in America after the Civil War, it’s still existing in the USA.  True, there is sex slavery, human trafficking, and other things that are alive and well, but when you go to the Bible and the historical accounts you get a different picture of slavery and you’ll see what I mean.

First, slavery in the Bible did not bear the negative connotations it does today. Read the rest of this page »