The Bible condones slavery. And many slave holders invoked the Bible to justify slavery.
From Frederick Douglas’ first autobiography:
Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
Which dovetails well with the famous quote from C. S. Lewis:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
A lot of Christian slaveowners “justified” themselves as helping their slaves by “saving” them, or whatever. White man’s burden and all that rot.
The Bible condones slavery. And many slave holders invoked the Bible to justify slavery.
From Frederick Douglas’ first autobiography:
Which dovetails well with the famous quote from C. S. Lewis:
A lot of Christian slaveowners “justified” themselves as helping their slaves by “saving” them, or whatever. White man’s burden and all that rot.