Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But they (the Church) didn’t view enslaved people as ‘people’ - that’s a fairly recent development. 

It’s a repugnant point of view to us, but in the period under discussion in Leo’s apology, it was not only Church policy but a moral certainty that non-Christians were sub-human and had no more rights than cattle or sheep. 

Boru

What about an inference from classical times when even Jews were enslaved.  It sounds like you're saying the church had no counterexamples, but they did.

I believe Jews fall into the category of non-Christians.

The point is that societies which practiced slavery did not view slavery as immoral.

Boru