[sakic]

To be fair, the Bible was also bastardized to justify slavery.

[miss marmelstein]

What are you talking about? Christianity got African-Americans through slavery, Jim Crow and assorted troubles during their hard times. I don’t care if the bible has conflicting opinions on slavery; blacks took the whole of it as their gospel in America and it sustained them for 200 years.

[COBOL2Java]

To be fair, the Bible was also bastardized to justify slavery.

Read Matthew 4:1-11. Satan also bastardizes the Bible, so what's your point?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To be fair, the Bible was also bastardized to justify slavery.

To be fair, the Bible didn’t have to be “bastardized” to justify slavery. But then, no religion historically - not paganism, certainly, and not Islam, most certainly - and not Hinduism or official atheism (e.g., the Soviet Union) ever delegitimated slavery as an institution. Except for Christianity, in the past couple of centuries. Especially protestant Christianity, and most especially British Christianity.

To be fair.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell