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To: SkyDancer

You should actually read what I wrote. I never claimed all slave owners were Christian. My words were “for the most part”. Don’t ever recall a large hindu, moslem, buddist, or Shinto, population in the U.S. before the modern era. So who do you suppose bought and owned slaves in the Western Hemisphere. I never used the term “evil” in reference to Christians The fact that they owned slaves was the question at hand. Do you have any support that the majority of slave owners in the United States were not Christian. I have no sympathies towards muzzies. The Moslems may have rounded up the Africans, transported them to the African coast and sold them to the highest bidder, but if there was not a market for those slaves in the Western Hemisphere, then there would have been no slave trade to the Western Hemisphere.


49 posted on 08/15/2015 6:40:23 PM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: X Fretensis
Don’t ever recall a large hindu, moslem, buddist, or Shinto, population in the U.S. before the modern era. So who do you suppose bought and owned slaves in the Western Hemisphere

But that's the point he is making... there was a buyer and a seller, and you focus entirely on the buyers, ignore the fact that most of the purchased slaves did not come here, and choose to label the purchasers as Christians rather than as Southerners, or Democrats, or anything else. You forgive and ignore the Muslim sellers (who did the real evil of stealing free people from their homes and families), and you focus on only the 3 percent of buyers who were likely majority Christian, although not acting in a very Christian manner for the most part (although many did teach slaves from the Bible). You choose to smear one small group in the trade, and ignore the vast majorities involved who are of other faiths... including faiths that openly encourage and condone the trade.

50 posted on 08/15/2015 6:51:37 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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