(June 21, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 1:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Really? Where does it prohibit slavery in the Bible? Didn't the Catholic church actually own slaves in North and South America?
The America abolitionist movement pitted church against church with many churches declaring slavery to be the will of god. The earliest anti-slavery proponents were free-thinkers. http://www.freethought-trail.org/profile...use&Page=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought Funny it should take atheists to get the ball rolling.
As for the prohibition of slavery in the Bible, my response would be that general principles espoused in the Bible led to the elimination of slavery as it was practiced in times much closer to our own. It was the TRAJECTORY of Christianity that made this eventually possible.
You might want to learn a bit about William Wilberforce.
Odd example to post Randy, considering Wilberforce was an Anglican and was slagged off by the Catholic Church.
The trajectory that made this possible was moving away from Catholicism. Still Christian, but certainly not Catholic.
