• scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      He did, but William Wilburforce still used the idealogical basis to start the western abandonment of the slave trade, the same way John Brown was inspired by liberation theology which galvanized his work as an abolitionist. Those are more the sources usually cited for the development of the ideology given you are indeed correct.

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        Lol really? The entire system of chattal slavery in the US was driven and justified with the Bible. They literally printed “slave Bibles” that had any reference to freedom removed.

        Without Christianity, it’s possible that the North Atlantic slave trade never would have become what it did (or if it had, the South probably wouldn’t have gone to war over it).

        I don’t know why people have this urge to add all the this extra baggage that comes with any religion, let alone an Abrahamic one, to morals and ethics that already exist in us without it. It’s just so unnecessary, and if anything, it hurts your cause.

        Just give it up man, it’s not real.