(August 18, 2019 at 6:13 am)Acrobat Wrote: .If slavery ultimately benefited our wellbeing in the long run, by 200 years of free labor, significantly contributing to why we're the wealthiest country today, have the resources, etc.. we have today. Would this make it no longer immoral?
But slavery didn't benefit society considering that many people died in civil war and that society still looks down on black people resulting still in many inequalities, like black families being generally poorer than white families.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
