Please God, let me see my friend again with both eyes intact and no gapping holes in his body" (James 12). This is a quote of a soldiers who turns to God in a cry of desperation to live to see another day while also describing the brutal injuries that many soldier faced in war. ... There is something about having the assurance that you are safe and that a higher being (God) is watching after you. ... Even though there were so many different religions represented in that 80 percent they were all united by believing in the same God. ... Many wars were fought in biblical times, and God pro...

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We watch and see freedom as it becomes a hollow concept no less so in the 21st century, than it was in the 17th and 18th century as well. ... Even black women were allowed to attend courts and plead their case. ... Good God! ... (pg38Fithian)" I think that quote from Fithina sums up the whole feeling of slavery in the 18th century. ... If you wore red lens over your eyes your whole life and saw nothing else, then in essence you would know of nothing else. ...

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