this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
846 points (98.2% liked)

Microblog Memes

9459 readers
2091 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world
aeronmelon@lemmy.world
needanke@feddit.org
846
Dating Checklist (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 weeks ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
115 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes this true but I'd like to provide one example in reference to Virginia's Casual Killing act of 1669.

This exempted slavers from facing felony charges for killing their slaves if they resisted punishment.

The scriptural basis of this is Exodus 21:20-21

If a man beats his slave to death—whether the slave is male or female—that man shall surely be punished. However, if the slave does not die for a couple of days, then the man shall not be punished—for the slave is his property.

Implying that you can indeed kill your slave as long as it doesn't happen immediately.

Now this was before the declaration of independence but drafting laws after scripture has a longstanding history in the US.

America may not explicitly be a Christian nation, but implicitly, there are far too many that strongly believe it is.