(June 21, 2015 at 1:55 pm)Metis Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 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.
Why not? It is all dishonest anyway. One must reject what the Bible and Jesus say in order to get to the idea that slavery is bad. It is only through the erosion of religious beliefs that a Christian can be an abolitionist.
Of course, it is a good thing that people are and have been getting away from the morality of the Bible. But it is completely dishonest to say that the Bible is the source of such improvements. But you are not arguing with someone who has any regard for the truth, so you ought not expect to hear such things from him.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
