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   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 19/04/2025 13:01, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   Roman (owned)  slaves largely, and Greek (owned) ones.   
   Did you actually not know this?   
      
      
   --   
   When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over   
   the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that   
   authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.   
      
     Frédéric Bastiat   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)