This is what I wrote for the Christian assholes who infest the Wall Street Journal.
During the period of American slavery, how did slaveholders manage to balance their religious beliefs with the cruel facts of the “peculiar institution“? As shown by the following passages — adapted from Noel Rae’s new book The Great Stain, which uses firsthand accounts to tell the story of slavery in America — for some of them that rationalization was right there in the Bible.
Out of the more than three quarters of a million words in the Bible, Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most slaveholders would have defined themselves as Christian—had two favorites texts, one from the beginning of the Old Testament and the other from the end of the New Testament. In the words of the King James Bible, which was the version then current, these were, first, Genesis IX, 18–27:
Please click this to see the rest of it: How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery
Anyone can become a Christian. No moral values required. People only have be gullible enough to believe the decomposing corpse of the Magic Jeebus Man magically became a zombie.
To be a Christian it also helps to be coward who is willing to throw out all of reality to believe in a magical 2nd life.
Christianity is the most ridiculous and most disgusting cult ever invented.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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