(September 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You..are aware that most American abolitionists were originally secularists and deists, right? Not to mention all the enlightenment philosophers who were against slavery without any mention of Christianity or God. Also not to mention the fact that Christianity was one of the major driving factors that kept slavery around for so long? Your high horse ain't as high as you like to think dude.
Yes, my horse isn't that high. And yes, the church advocated slavery for a time; they, like many others were under economic pressures to keep it going. the point I made is that religion played a vital role in the abolition for independent reasons apart form secular thought.
Call me Josh, it's fine.
