Revisionist history is easier ....?

Question

Why is it that so many people like to point to the civil war and the antebellum period and say that Christianity is bad because it supports slavery... Did they miss the whole section in their history books about the abolitionists? Or perhaps they just skipped over the Underground Railroad?

While it is so much easier to claim that Christianity supports slavery, just look at what they did to the poor Africans.. some one really should do some research into the whole slave trade. Africans sold other Africans into slavery. Islamic traders sold Africans into slavery... Ooops.. So sorry... I meant to say that it doesn't all add up to the entire Christian population of the world believing in slavery, especially when you note the many Christian men and women who went out of their way to free slaves, and in many places still are.

Answer 1

Liberals are always twisting the facts and trying to revise history. They've also changed the English language so much that you can hardly understand it.

Answer 2

While it's clear that through cherry picking, the abolitionists found verses that supported emancipation, it's absurd to think that abolitionists came to their position after a more thorough reading of the Bible than southerners. It's also clear that freedom for African slaves was spread at the point of a bayonet through what was (and continues to be) the most pious part of the developed world.

No revisionist history here.

Answer 3

So you want a broader view, but you refer to "the civil war" as if we know which country's civil war you are referring to. And the black Africans who were indoctrinated into Christianity just traded one form of slavery for a more insidious (religious) form. Missionary work is a form of imperialism.

Answer 4

Good point. Very good point...

Answer 5

lol