hed for repentance of sin, denial of worship to pagan and idol gods and the virtues of charity, faith, and humility. Jesus was arrested and condemned to death by the chief Jewish tribunal, the Sanhedrin. He was executed along with the other criminals. Nevertheless, Jesus' legacy lives on as a blueprint on how to live.
             Yet, tyranny and unjust laws have continued through the years. Thoreau wrote in "The Captain's Plea for John Brown."
             "We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that when the noblest faculties of the mind, and the whole heart, are not represented ...The only government to which all the truly brave and just men.... are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses. A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies Christ everyday."
             We see the above in the light of history. In the French Revolution men like Baron deMontesquien in The Spirit of Laws advocated the separation of power with "checks and balances" in government and uncompromising defense of liberty against tyranny. Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contrast wrote "man is born free, but today is everywhere in chains". Just as in France, The American Revolution pursued the ideals of "liberty and equality" in repudiating the traditional government. Yet these same colonists who claimed to be Christians and followers of the Ten Commandments and the teaching of Jesus held men in bondage as chattel.
             Great men arose in the defense of the slaves, John Brown being on of them. The United States of America was formed on the principles of "separation of power" and "liberty and equality". Yet the white Christians only meant "liberty and equality" for the whites. During the American Revolution, Thomas Paine said, "Give me liberty or give me death". He was applauded and deemed a hero; yet when the Black chat...