“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve out his very own private colonial domain, he had alighted upon the Congo - Africa’s vast and unplundered interior. With the help of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had found a way to circumnavigate the Congo’s formerly insurmountable rapids, he concocted a cunning scheme to legally make it his own, while casting himself as a civilising saviour. Yet, despite his ostensibly philanthropic motivations, Leopold’s goal was always profit. More specifically, ivory, and later rubber, and before long a thriving hub of industry had been established in the Congo, bustling with soldiers, traders and missionaries. Meanwhile and most significantly, tens of thousands of Congolese people were being beaten, coerced and essentially enslaved into harvesting and carrying the riches of their land for their European oppressors. Their treatment was barbaric, the conditions in which they were made to live grotesque, and their suffering unimaginable. It was there, in King Leopold's Congo, that for years some of the worst violations of human life in all of human history were perpetrated. A terrible, secret heart of darkness, Until, at last, a young shipping clerk in Antwerp stumbled across something that would change the course of history forever...

Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss Western history’s most brutal and barbaric colonial conquest: King Leopold’s exploitation of the Congo Free

0:00 Intro
05:54 Leopold's true motivations come to the fore
18:37 The Force Publique
29:30 The Dawn of Rubber
38:51 The practice of cutting off hands
49:28 The first glimmers of criticism

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Whether you're a believer or non-believer, when confronting bible slavery, don't let anyone throw up this ridiculous smokescreen that says that the slavery instituted in the old testament was so completely different to, say, pre-civil war US slavery.

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The usual tactic is to throw facts and rules about Israelite indentured servitude around, to throw you off the scent of a Yahweh-mandated form of slavery EVERY BIT as bad as anything we've seen in recent centuries. This line of argument is so prevalent that I'm confused as to whether its proponents actually believe it or not; but either way, this video is my attempt to inject a bit of reality into this very important area of discussion.
The god of the bible mandated oppressive life-long slavery of foreigners - pretty much a concise description of one of the worst forms of human rights abuses the world has ever had to grapple with. It's as simple as that.
No, I don't hate God for mandating slavery, and no I don't believe that God is evil for mandating slavery. I don't believe that THIS god, the absurd god of the bible, is even extant, let alone worthy of any adjectives beyond that! This god's inhumane and ridiculously cruel commands say nothing about the god that they are ascribed to, simply because they are so obviously ascribed to a god by the men in whose image this god was made.
Deal with it folks; your god is the brainchild of some particularly awful humans. The bible simply and clearly gets this very easy human rights question utterly wrong.
Abandon it, and keep looking for answers. You'll be ever so glad you did.


Thanks to Tim R. for coding the English subtitle track.

Thanks to those who responded to my blog post requesting help with reading materials. Special thanks to Dr. B Cargill (Asst Prof. of Classics and Religious Studies, UOI) for valuable guidance in the final stages of writing, and for the "job creators" line!

Amongst other sources I used:

Avalos, H. (2011) "Slavery, Abolitionism and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship: Reflections about Ethical Deflections"
Accessed Dec 2012 at http://www.bibleinterp.com/art....icles/ava358013.shtm

Copan, P. (2011) "Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? An Overview". Enrichment, Spring 2011

Jewish Virtual Library. (2008) "Slavery: Biblical Law"
Accessed January 2012 at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar....y.org/jsource/judaic

Path Of The Beagle (blog) has an informative series on Bible slavery, starting here:
http://pathofthebeagle.com/201....1/09/10/invitation-t

Unbelievable? Episode: "Does the Bible condone slavery?" 19 June, 2010.Debate: David Instone-Brewer, vs. Bob Price. Moderator: Justin Brierley
Accessed and available via iTunes podcast.

Deem, R (2011) "Does God Approve of Slavery According to the Bible?"
http://www.godandscience.org/a....pologetics/slavery_b

Section 1 of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

I had to leave out "male and female" in my recounting of Lev 25:45-47; I had a gag about Yahweh being an equal-opportunity enslaver but it got taken out along the way, and it flowed within the video much better with that left out.
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Namibia's Founding President Sam Nujoma died on February 8 at 23:45 in Windhoek, Namibia, at the age of 95.

Nujoma, a politician and anti-apartheid activist, served as the first President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005.

Nujoma has played an integral part in Namibia's history since the 1950s when he co-founded the Ovamboland People's Organisation, which became SWAPO in 1960. He advocated for an independent Namibia at international bodies such as the UN and the OAU and was at the forefront of the guerrilla war against South Africa's apartheid government that started in 1966.

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⁣General Tiani, the military leader of Niger, has given officials of three Chinese companies to leave the country.



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Survival

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