RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 31, 2023 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2023 at 8:56 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(July 30, 2023 at 11:48 pm)Helios Wrote:Quote:As for Abolition and Slavery, Prez. LincolnLincoln freed the slaves but he didn't give them full equality and his desire for racial integration was dubious
Quote:William WilberforceAn imperialist who supported the British Empire and it's underlining racist themes of "civilizing the world"
Quote:for e.g. as well as Anti-Slavery Crusader David Livingstone, were the Accomplished Abolitionists of their time, and they were devout Christians.Yeah the guy who opened Africa to colonialism which lead to all the horrors that came from that
These are your heroes? Also, Christianity doesn't get credit for fixing a problem it helped cause.
You're a thankless shithead to all the heros of the past who made incredibly difficult incremental progress towards the recognition of human rights that now, in retrospect, seem obvious. But they definitly were not obvious back then.
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