This is a category error. There were rationalizations for slavery drawn from Christianity, just as there were rationalizations drawn from science, history, & law. But abolitionism was *driven* by the movement to impose Christian moral limits on human self-interest.https://twitter.com/brianros1/status/1433292459849682947 …
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Your own article doesn’t even give Christianity credit. Is your point that because certain abolitionists were Christian, that Christianity itself ended slavery?pic.twitter.com/mrwLjrKHFh
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I guess we don't count the REV. Dr. Martin Luther King as a Christian minister in all of this, right?
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You forgot Thomas Paine
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"Anything bad done in the name of Christianity was an aberration done by flawed people and should not be held against Christianity; Anything good was a feature of Christianity, which should be given credit for the good thing." What a convenient stance to hold
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