(August 23, 2013 at 1:54 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Christs message was one of compassion for the oppressed and for human equality, community and brotherhood. It isn't a message compatible with the slave trade. This is why we don't still have an official slave trade today.
As someone who is interested in the human rights situation across the globe I can tell you that there is more slavery today, dispite it being illegal, than there has ever been throughout human history.
And if you think slavery and christianity dont fit together look up the curse of Ham.
Other than that, I would like to adress your first point which I just noticed forgot to quote. Even if 90% of all scientists who ever existed were theists this would not change my attitude, since science and atheism are things which are not conected. One does not need to believe in anything that comes forth from scientific discovery and can still be an atheist.
The reason why so many of us tak interest in science because it is interesting. And because it is the religious who often fight scientific discovery.
