…I find it rather ironic that a slave who was born with out a
family, with out an identity, and with out rights still hopes for that special
"something" he will never have…We must not forget, that slave owners
indeed believed in THE SAME GOD as slaves did, so why would slaves pray to this
God when they new their opponents (slave owners) begged for this race's
removal. It seems ironic to think about the religion in this time period…
-Maria Andrea Sanchez
According to Dictionary.com, the word ironic means: a technique of indicating, as through
character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or
ostensibly stated.
First
of all I would have to say, I do not believe both groups (slaves, and slave
owners) pray to the same God, being as different as they are, or at least show
to be, they most surely not have the same beliefs to life or religion. Not
mentioning their obvious distinctive physical race, background in ancestry and
different education and culture, religion must clearly, additionally to this,
be different too. So to conclude my point this is unquestionably NOT irony,
since it is NOT the same God they are praying to.
Additionally
when in her blog post, Maria Andrea Sanchez says that it is ironic how slaves,
having more or less nothing (referring to family and identity), still have hope
and beliefs in somewhat a religion, I would have to be in complete disagreement
here. Similarly to the part she states, how ironic it is to think of religion
in that time period. Not only because
of the use of the word irony, but because to me it seems rather difficult, if
not, impossible to think of a time or even a place where religion wasn’t existent.
In my way of seeing it, there is no point for anything without some sort of
religion, or at least some sort of beliefs, mainly and most importantly in
moments as hard as the ones slaves had to overcome.
Nevertheless,
she does mention, after saying how ironic it is, how having hope and faith must
have helped this poor slaves live through life. Which makes the post
considerably more agreeable yet still not fully.
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