(March 19, 2013 at 4:45 pm)Ryantology Wrote:(March 19, 2013 at 2:26 pm)jstrodel Wrote: John Wesley was against slavery, he wasn't influenced by the enlightenment, he was against it is a Christian. So were many others.
The enlightenment to a great degree was a product of the parent Christian civilization anyways (Descartes, Locke, Bacon, Newton, etc)
If he was against it as a Christian, all that shows is that he didn't know his religion very well, or that he wished to interpret it contrary to what it actually says because he could find no other way to find a compromise between what was obviously evil and what his god says was totally good and acceptable. The Bible repeatedly affirms the morality of owning human chattel. As self-contradictory as that trash is, this is one issue on which it is totally consistent. A Christian who believes slavery is immoral is a Christian who denies God's righteousness.
Without fail, you presuppose the methods that are furthest away from your own approach to ethics, proving that you do not want to understand Christianity, you want to debate.
