Since The Bible has many passages that endorse slavery, it took quite some time for the majority of Christians to object to it on moral grounds. Even a centralized religious body like the Roman Catholic Church took until the 17th century to formally condemn slavery.
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The irony, right? That outfit looks quite a bit like an early Santa garb. Hugs...
Awful...
Gotta love religion....right?
Like you say, this was just a formalization. The church has been against slavery long before the seventeenth century.
Wow
Well, men were the ones who wrote the bible
Since The Bible has many passages that endorse slavery, it took quite some time for the majority of Christians to object to it on moral grounds.. I had to read that twice because it almost sounded like a contradiction to me ;)
Unfortunately slavery is still a reality in our troubled world.
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