The_Jackal
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the dukester;8907794 said:@Thejackal
I would acknowledge that the slave rebellions that occurred in Haiti, had a SIGNIFICANT impact on Haitians, defeating the French, and thus obtaining independence.
However, the slave rebellions in the U.S, are merely a footnote in the larger context of 437 years of slavery. It's a strawman argument that seeks to undermine the premise of my post.
Nat Turner used biblical principles to slaughter whites in the same fashion KKK terrorists used biblical principles to justify the killing of blacks.
So my point is, the white man used Christianity to justify slavery as a "ruse" (meaning that they never believed any of that stuff. But found it effective as a control mechanism). A quote from the Gibbons sums it up nicely, "The common people find religion all equally true, the thinkers and philosophers find religion all equally false, and the magistrates and governments find religion all equally useful."
By the way..... it was a brainwashed black Christian who snitched on Nat Turner, which eventually led to his hanging.
How does any of what I said undermine any point you made?
Your point was that Christianity made Blacks less aggressive and used as a forum to push a non violent agenda. I argued that that point is moot because plenty of Blacks have used Christianity as justification for violent uprising.
The point you are proposing in this post is a completly different one then what you suggested in your first post.