TheWhiteMarten Wrote:is not a statement of a "pro-slavery" ideology, and the fact that Christianity would initially spread like wildfire amongst the slaves of the empire - to go on to abolish slavery within the Roman Empire
It is pro-slavery especially since Christianity kept slavery for the next 2000 years. And if you look at the Bible, it never at any point condemns slavery but embraces it and tells people to have slaves, how to treat them, how to rape them,and etc.
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"
