04-25-2007, 05:47 AM
Quote:It was Christian ethical principles that eventually gave every human being an equal standing with their Creator and convinced modern nations to abandon slavery.
It is just a coincidence, then, that the rise of deism and freethinking, and the resulting attempts to establish ethical principles without necessary reference to Christianity, happened to coincide with the rise of abolitionism in England?
I think not.
-Jester