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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Neocon who wrote (77837)10/18/2003 1:48:17 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Yeah right...the descendents of Ham and all that! Religion justified the slave trade from square one--both Muslim and Christian.

"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren".

all-creatures.org

mondediplo.com

Yes, some religious people eventually decided that blacks were human (argued by Cotton Mather in 1706). So religious people stopped supporting slavery. So what? Is that an extraordinary virtue?
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