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Doulas In American Culture

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“The most common term for “servant” is doulas, which means “slave”. Not surprisingly, doulous was a title of humiliation in the ancient world. People frowned upon the idea of being subservient, of putting a master’s interests before their own” (Jonhston.1999 p,76) In addition the word servant fits better with Christians, than the word slave. What I think Johnston meant by saying,” While it’s hard to play second fiddle, we find that it’s easy to fake servant hood; is that no one likes to be in the background, or second behind anything. I agree with Johnston, only because it’s our nature to think that way and we will learn in due time, that our Father should forever be first in everything. In this day and age, fake is a big part of so

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