AIM: How did the slave trades affect modern history? Do Now: How do people use religion to justify hate? HW: Read 426-430, Answer 2,3,4
Westboro Baptist Church
Religion as hate?
Treatment
Religion as justification When you think of Jesus, what race do you imagine him to be?
Jesus
God
Why isn’t this more prevalent?
Does anyone really know what Jesus looked like? Different societies have depicted Jesus and most other biblical figures as their own ethnicity in their art; for example he is primarily European in the West. When the Native Americans in California were converted to Christianity, he appeared in their art as a Native American. The current dominant opinion among historians and scientists is that he was most likely a Galilean Jew and thus would have features which resemble modern-day persons of Middle Eastern descent.
The statistics
Statistics
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Reading
CHRISTIANITY AS A TOOL OF SUPPRESSION How did the European view of Jesus and God keep Africans suppressed?