Religion
In reply to the discussion: March 25 good news: 84 percent of the world population has faith........ [View all]HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)people have been persecuted throughout history simply because of their religion. And I'm sure that it often starts by simply pointing out passages in their holy books that were inconsistent with the beliefs of the majority.
In fact, go on Facebook and look up anti-Muslim sites, that is exactly what they do with the Koran. I'm not saying you will oppress, but sometimes one can lay a brick into the road towards discrimination without thinking about what they are really doing.
People who claim religion as a basis to oppress, misuse religion, they don't practice it.
By blaming slavery on religion, you are whitewashing the fact that it was born in America out of greed an unchecked capitalism. They didn't do it because they were religious, they used people as chattel out of greed. They found some archaic passage in the Bible to argue for it, but they would have done it anyway. Let's not whitewash how technology, unchecked by any moral or ethical system, is destroying our environment and threatening our very existence. I don't blame technology, I blame the people who misuse it.