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Entry: Bloody kansas Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/bloody_kansas#8246 Post contents: I will offer an area of truce. Slavery, in 21st century America is "wrong" because it goes against our civil laws. In 1843 South Carolina, I would not have picked up arms for the case of abolition. Fighting against slavery with weapons in 1843, for example, would have been a sin. Slavery is something that is "institutionalized" by society, and Christianity tells us to accept society for what it is: that is, to paraphrase God, give Caesar what is his. I think, given these definitions, we can say that to hold slaves in 21st America is a "sin", but to hold slaves in 1843 South Carolina was not, just as holding slaves in 2007 Sudan is not a "sin", nor is not letting women, or anyone else for that matter, in 2007 Arabia vote for "king" a "sin". Venial sins aren't constant, nor should they be throughout the world. What should be constant are those things that we know as mortal sins, blasphemy, fraud, theft, murder, treason, etc. Sent at: 2008 07 24