Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?

[ollie10]

143. Christian churches have strongly come out against slavery....

For example, the Catholics.....


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

I am confident that the other Christian churches have similarly condemned slavery today.

If there are christian people out there supporting slavery, it is against the rulings and wishes of their Christian church.....

I mean.....people break the commandments all the time, cheat on their wives, kill people, steal, and etc.....that doesn't mean the church supports debauchery.

And Trump is about the most irreligious person in history!