(May 30, 2018 at 7:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 30, 2018 at 4:56 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Funny. When the church was in power, we had slavery and noble privilege. When doubt came on the scene, we acquired rights and equality. That seems to disprove your point.
Whole books have been written on the subject. I suggest "The Popes and Slavery" by Fr. Joel Panzer. The Roman Catholic Church was condemning chattel slavery, though not necessarily other forms servitude, since before Columbus.
Agreed. But it didn't seem to make much difference until people started working past religious superstitions, did it?
