Christianity on Trial Ch. 2

As I was saying in my last post about Slavery, Christianity cannot support it. Many people say that back in the day (civil war times) many Southern Baptist supported it and the slave trade, this was mainly because slavery was a way of life, it was how all the huge farms functioned. Without the slaves they couldn't have ran a huge farm.  Most preachers also bent the scriptures to support their ways. Now don't take this as that I support slavery or that I am trying to justify their ways, I am simply explaining their thoughts in my opinion. I do think that the farmers could have treated them better, given them a choice if they wanted to work, offered them pay and better housing, etc., therefore they would no longer would have been classified as slaves.

David Brewster wrote in a column for Scripps Howard News Service saying "The slavery of America's antebellum South found support in the theology of many of men's churches until the nation ran red with blood and the righteousness of reason prevailed" (p. 25)
Now I do see where he comes from about slavery finding support in the churches, because that's what was really happening, and I have already explained why that happened. But how can one say "...until the righteousness of REASON prevailed". Reason is based on a personal preference and definition, so in the farmers mind their reasoning was that slavery was fine. Everyone has their own definition of right or wrong based on different things. So the slave owners were not ignoring right or wrong, most of them were raised to believe that blacks were inferior to them, as did the law with the three-fifths compromise, saying that slaves were only counted as three-fifths of a person. So between the law and the "scriptures" (they were bending them to make them fit for their cause) their reason was right and just. So it would be unjust to attack christianity as a whole for so called "supporting" slavery.

Also, look at it from a neutral point of view, if someone walks in a room, they can't read, communicate (language barrier), and lack of basic knowledge, you automatically feel superior to them

Christianity on Trial Ch. 1

I'm reviewing the book Christianity on Trial.  This book explains the common beliefs about how Christianity was involved with the past events. It explain it in the western cultures,how it was believed to support slavery, science, the slaughter of innocent people, The Nazis and the Third Reich, Charity, the environment, and the government.  It is written by Vincent Carroll and David Shiflet. Vincent Carroll lives in Denver, Colorado and is an editor of the editorial pages at the Rocky Mountain News. David Shiflet is a freelance writer living in Midlothian, Virginia, He also wrote the book The America We Deserve, with Donald Trump.

In the first chapter of Christianity on Trial he talks about the Middle Ages and way back in the Roman Empire. One of his points that stuck out to me was "without belief in moral equality, there cannot be any hope for the western legal system or equality before law."
This is a good point made, you  can't contradict your legal system and beliefs, it just doesn't work.  True Christianity cannot support slavery in any way.  If a Christian believes that everyone is made in the image of God then how can one be better than the other? It is impossible, one would have to contradict his beliefs reject the Bible.  Once he believes true Christianity he believes that all men are moral equals and once he believes that he cannot support slavery.  Why would one want to make another serve another master besides God when he would want to serve another either.  A true Christian would encourage one to serve God and be happy rather than make one serve a tyrannical ruler. This is one reason why women preferred Christianity.  Most Religions in the ancient times just used women, they were just a number, not allowed to vote or speak.  Most girls were sold into slavery as prostitutes for the temples, so the chance to be equal and feel like they mean something was a opportunity they couldn't pass up. Even though in the Bible it says for men to be above women, it is more leaning to that a man should lead his family and wife toward Christ and set a good example for them to follow, it doesn't mean that a woman is just to bow down, they can suggest compromises to problems they disagree with.  The pagan religions would often abandon a child if it was not a boy or if the boy was deformed, girls were rarely kept.  Men out numbered women by 30 percent. 


Christianity said that no ruler was above the law, but on the other hand Roman Emperors were as a god.  This is why Romans did not like the Christians, they did not worship the Emperor.  Romans did not care who you worshipped just as long as the Emperor was one of them.