"...modern people think about slavery and say, "How could people have accepted such an monstrosity?"..."That's not the way historians think. they ask: 'considering the fact that it was universally believed by all societies that we had the right to attack and enslave weaker people, and since everybody had always done it, the real historical question is 'Why did it occur to anybody the it was wrong? Who ever first had that idea?'" The speaker answered by pointing out that the first voices in the 4th, 17th, 18th & 19th centuries who called for the abolition of slavery were all Christian. And the Christians who called for this justice believed that there was a God of love who demanded that we love out neighbors, all our neighbors, as ourselves."
Tim Keller
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