What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity

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For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only recently come to the attention of the public.

"Without the enslaved, the Catholic Church in the United States as we know it today would not exist," writes author Rachel Swarns. She says the priests prayed for the salvation of the souls of the people they owned, even as they bought and sold their bodies.

In 1838, the Jesuits sold 272 enslaved people, which helped save what is now Georgetown University from bankruptcy and helped stabilize the Jesuits in Maryland. Swarns wrote about this sale in 2016 in the New York Times article "272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What does It owe Their Descendants?"

The Catholic Church profited from slavery — 'The 272' explains how

As Wikipedia notes, most of the church's encyclicals were simply ignored, even when they were clear, as they not always were, such as the 1839 bull from Pope Gregory XVI which condemns taking new slaves but not the continued exploitation of existing slaves, somewhat reminiscent of how the bible condemned taking Hebrew slaves and kidnapping, but green-lighted enslaving foreign peoples. If the church had truly been interested in stopping slavery then one can legitimately ask why they didn't do more to end the practice? NX cites encyclicals from 1435 and 1537 ostensibly condemning some slave trade, yet in 1454 Pope Nicholas granted King Alfonso V of Portugal permission "to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit... [emphasis added]" The church's opposition to slavery has, at best, been one of convenience rather than principle for even their man-god Jesus discouraged slaves from resisting their enslavement.

The church has been and continues to be two-faced in its attitude toward slavery, from the first to the last, as the church even today endorses policies that aid and abet sex trafficking and wage slavery. The bare facts laid out make clear that the church cares more for profits and power than it does for people.