XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   >   
   >>> Once again, Poles had nothing to do with it ...   
   >>   
   >> But you claim to be covered by the same “Christian” brand. I don’t see   
   >> you   
   >> disavowing “Christianity” and setting up another brand that explicitly   
   >> does not condone such activities in its core beliefs.   
   >   
   > There is nothing to disavow. A religion cannot be held responsible for   
   > what people claiming to be its adherents do. The New Testament is clear   
   > in the idea that Christians should be rallying _against_ slavery.   
   >   
   > Finally, your opinion of Christianity is of no interest to me.   
   >   
      
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   only in others...”   
      
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