Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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I think my answer shows that it's hard to fillet out one issue as if it's not related to other issues.
You can't do the experiment of let's hold everything else constant and just look at this one thing.
I could try to make that case.
And I think there are some points in its favor.
The problem is the empirical problem.
You can talk about the logics or the explicit values or the implicit or the ramifications of a certain orientation towards an understanding of humanity, an understanding of God, an understanding of...
the inheritance of the Old Testament, the understandings of the new revelations, and say, here lies the seed of which the anti-slavery movements would emerge.
And there's just no challenging the fact that the first anti-slavery movements invoked the gospel.
to make their case.
So all that's true.
The problem is the empirical point that Christians created slavery in the Americas.
Something inevitable that took an awful long time.
The churches were major slave-holding institutions that Christian theologians defended slavery repeatedly over a millennium and a half
So, you know, I mean, it's just... I mean, you know, and obviously there's a... Well, that wasn't the real thing.
The real thing was just kind of waiting to come out.
And it's like, well... Sometimes the real thing doesn't necessarily come out.
Well, it's just, you know, it requires a great deal of selectivity.
Yeah.
Not just denial or evasion, but selectivity to find...
Just in the same way, it requires selectivity to say that, you know, Christianity is a religion of massacres.
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