Reply #33: Thousands of white slaves? Whatever. [View All]

[StuckinKS]

It's just like the argument that many non-Jews died in the Holocaust. Of course both happened and shouldn't be ignored but blacks suffered most from slavery and Jews from the Holocaust. Period.

Even if there were that many white slaves, all you are doing is using that fact as an unimportant adjunct to this argument. Which is whether organized religion played a major part in freeing the (black) slaves.

Undoubtedly, many people of different faiths were involved in the abolitionist movement and subsequent efforts to free the slaves. But just as many people of faith used that faith to argue FOR slavery. Some denominations even divided North and South over the issue. And I'm pretty sure there were no pronouncements from the Pope or any other major religious leader in the 1850s and 1860s decrying slavery and urging their followers to fight against it.

So, "Christianity" was no more responsible for freeing the slaves than they are for securing gay rights today. There are merely some Christians working on either side.