Slavery, Christianity and Islam

by Infidelesto on February 4, 2008 · View Comments

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Great article by Robert Spencer.

It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record on slavery. This is part of a larger assault on Western history and society, which, by accident or design, plays into the hands of those who are today mounting on a global scale a sweeping and explicit cultural challenge to Judeo-Christian as well as post-Christian values. The fundamentally most misunderstood and overlooked aspect of today’s defense against the global jihad is this challenge that Jihadists make to Western values, which are in large part Judeo-Christian. Combine this with a historical critique that relentlessly portrays the West as the aggressors against the rest of the world, and as uniquely responsible for its evils, and Westerners’ will to defend something as rotten as Western civilization begins to ebb away.

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  • John ryan

    slavery exists in christian Africa as well Benin and Togo are prime examples

  • Beej

    Slavery is an old as Man, and far, far older than any extant religion. Surely everyone knows that?

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