And who were the bigots that use the Bible to justify slavery? Fucking Christians, that is who.
Progressive Christians went AGAINST their religion because they were good people.
Was the emancipation of slaves a progressive change?
Did the emancipation cause moral degradation and decay, as YOU claimed?
The Christians who brought about the emancipation of slaves are the same type of Christians who today stand for the LGBT community and the dicks who opposed the emancipation then, oppose the progressive changes (sex and gender equality, women's reproductive rights) today.
Go back to your sandbox and think about it some more.
The Christians were the ones driving the abolitionist movement. Your attempt to argue that they were somehow acting against their faith are foolish hand waving. I am certain that those individuals were they alive today would be deeply insulted by your smear.
It is true that there have always been and always will be men who do evil in the name of God but the message of the Bible is one of freedom.
If you want proof of that just look at what those "religious slaveholders" felt they had to do to the Bible to make it safe for their slaves to learn about it. They chopped it up and left removed huge parts of it. They did so because they were concerned about the message of freedom it carries.
The Shocking 'Slave Bible'
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/february/freedom-in-christ-how-this-bible-was-used-to-manipulate
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This Bible, used by slave masters in the early 1800s, is quite different than the one used in pews today.
“It starts off with the creation story…then it jumps to Joseph getting sold into slavery by his brothers and how that ends up being a good thing for him,” Schmidt told CBN News.
“We skip over the Israelites in slavery in Egypt being let out,” said Schmidt.
Other references to freedom were also omitted.
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Most slaves were illiterate or prohibited from reading, so what would be the point of such a Bible?
“The abolitionist movement was beginning to make waves on both sides of the Atlantic “said Schmidt.
One way slave owners could combat pressure from abolitionists was to tell them they were good Christians that taught their slaves about God.
You are not only ignorant of the Bible but the history of the slave trade.
The Bible explicitly sanctions slavery to this fucking day.
That is what Christian slave owners and traders used as the justification for their immoral actions.
Progressives are the good people here, always were and always will be. Christian abolitionists stuck their necks, had to break their ties with traditional churches that were in favor of slavery. They stood up AGAINST their religion for the right reasons. Just like some Christians today are doing when they campaign for women or gay rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Abolitionism
The Roman Catholic canon law was changed, wait for it, in 1917 to make selling human beings into slavery a crime.
You can continue to be a prick, and be against gay rights, gender equality, women's reproductive rights, etc.
You can thump your Bible all you want, nobody cares anymore about people like you. You are like the pricks the abolitionists were up against.
Progressives will win for one reason, they are morally right.
Be a better person and join them. Or die a prick.