Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?

[ollie10]

142. Do you have any documentation to support your claim that....

.....christians today support the legalization of slavery? I understand that if you go to a kkk site or other white supremacist nut job site you could find such....I am talking about regular every day Christians, like the ones who go to church instead of klan meetings.....please include links

I will provide a link to the Catholic Church's current position on slavery:

The new Catechism of the Catholic Church published in 1994 sets out the official position:

The Seventh Commandment forbids acts or enterprises that .... lead to the enslavement of human beings, to their being bought, sold and exchanged like merchandise, in disregard for their personal dignity. It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit. St. Paul directed a Christian master to treat his Christian slave "no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother .... both in the flesh and in the Lord."[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_slavery

Geez, that was more than two decades ago and some still haven't heard!!!!

I am confident that the various other Christian churches have similar official positions condemning slavery.

But here on the internet, people actually believe the Christian church supports slavery!! Imagine that....preposterous!