Why did "Secular Humanists" oppress slaves?

Question

Source: US History

Answer 1

Human beings have oppressed each other since the beginning of time.

The Bible does not condemn slavery. Colossians 3:22 even states, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything."

This was much debated before and during the US Civil War.

The Catholic Church was one of the first groups to condemn slavery.

The condemnation of slavery is one of those nonbiblical doctrines that Catholics have developed through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over the centuries.

+ In 1462, Pius II declared slavery to be "a great crime" (magnum scelus). This was 30 years before Columbus discovered America.

+ In 1537, Paul III forbade the enslavement of the Indians

+ Urban VIII forbade it in 1639

+ Benedict XIV forbade it in 1741

+ Pius VII demanded of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the suppression of the slave trade

+ Gregory XVI condemned it in 1839

+ In the Bull of Canonization of the Jesuit Peter Claver, one of the most illustrious adversaries of slavery, Pius IX branded the "supreme villainy" (summum nefas) of the slave traders.

+ Leo XIII, in 1888, addressed a letter to the Brazilian bishops, exhorting them to banish from their country the remnants of slavery -- a letter to which the bishops responded with their most energetic efforts, and some generous slave-owners by freeing their slaves in a body, as in the first ages of the Church.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Now I know you're a troll.

Christians supported slavery. It was advocated in the Bible, so it was okay with them.

By the way: The term "Secular Humanism" was unknown before the 1950s.

Edit: Imacatholic2 neglects to mention that in the US, Catholics never condemned slavery. Instead, they tacitly supported it.

Answer 3

chirsitans make slaves every country they invaded they made slaves... the north American natives blacks in Africa everyone deemed non christian... they use their religion as a justification for murder, war and slavery.... all humans are born equal... made exactly the same regardless of race.... religion bi passes ones conscience so that they don't care about anyone but themselves In nature we evolve into cultures and communities.... in religion we evolved into heartless murderers...