Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?

[ollie10]

148. yes. but that doesn't show the connection between supporting slavery and the christian church

Christian churches have specifically condemned 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]

I don't know of any Christian Church (certainly not any of the main line ones) that has not condemned slavery.

So it is clear that any christian that supports slavery is doing that against the wishes and rules of their church. Sorta like a christian who cheats on his wife.....he may do that and he might call himself a christian, but that does not mean that the christian church supports adultery.


I know you have said that you are not interested in teachings back in the biblical day.....that today is what matters. OK. Today, Christian churches condemn slavery.