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by nate_meurer 5464 days ago
Yes, and support for slavery was also strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day.

The fact that religion so permeated debates in those times makes it easy for us to cherry-pick people and places to support our positions (this applies to me as much as you).

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> Yes, and support for slavery was also strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day.

I didn't claim otherwise.

My comment was solely about the winners.

FWIW, I think that the winners are more important than the losers.