[OneWingedShark]

>>I’m sure there were people working on it.
> Gods and Generals - Lee and Grant both believed theirs was on their side.
> FAIL

What does two men's beliefs have to do with whether or not people were working, in the south, to end slavery? It doesn't.
Moreover, our belief doesn't change the fact: an atheist believes there is no god, a monotheist believes there is a God; and the fact of the mater is not altered one way or the other.
FAIL

>> how do you explain the British eliminating slavery w/o civil war?
> LOL. The same British with the thriving Opium trade — Those British?

Again, you're shifting the target; slavery is not legal in any country and it is because of the impact of Christianity in the world. Period.

Evidently the Kaisar/Ceasar/Tzar/King’s MYSTERYous cronies figured out it was cheaper and more profitable to just addict the slaves instead of owning them.

So, what are you addicted to?

[TArcher]

>>Again, you’re shifting the target

To reality-land:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/asia/afghanistan-opium-production-increases-for-3rd-year.html?_r=0

>>So, what are you addicted to?

FReedom

And it’s not for sale, trade, or pacification upon your fallible and uninspired temple steps.