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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 4/19/25 06:04, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 18/04/2025 12:12, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> On 4/17/25 22:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:59:53 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> And because Christians did it, taking advantage of a situation created   
   >>>> by Muslims in the lands they conquered, everyone conveniently ignores   
   >>>> the Islamic role in the Slave Trade because Christians are not   
   >>>> likely to   
   >>>> murder the people complaining about them like Muslims would.   
   >>>   
   >>> But the followers of your religion claim to be morally superior to the   
   >>> other lot, don’t they? Yet here you are admitting that they are all just   
   >>> as bad, all quite happy to get their hands dirty in the moral mire that   
   >>> was the slave trade.   
   >>   
   >> People have been enslaving one another for millennia. Christianity did   
   >> not create the problem. If anything, Christians were rallying against   
   >> the practice from the beginning and there are lots of excerpts in the   
   >> New Testament saying as much. If people calling themselves Christians   
   >> participated in the trade, that does not mean that the religion   
   >> endorses it. Meanwhile, Islam _fully_ endorses slavery and the   
   >> practice continues in areas they control to this day.   
   >   
   > Christianity was the religion of the slaves.   
   > It promised they would be kings in the afterlife, so kept them happy   
   > slaves.   
      
   Which slaves are you referring to during Jesus's time and the successive   
   centuries?   
      
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