Most Americans in Abraham Lincoln's day were Christians. (Christians who didnt own slaves.) Why did Christian America vote to abolish slavery?
It’s simply astounding what ignorant nonsense you spew out.
Most Americans in Abraham Lincoln's day were Christians. (Christians who didnt own slaves.) Prove me wrong.
Yeah. So what?
The slaveholders of the South were uniformly CHRISTIANS.
Greedy, money loving, racist slaveholders.
All avid Christians.
...and they were vastly outnumbered by non-slave owners who were Christians and who supported the abolition of slavery.
No, abolitionists were a minority in North and South. You are astoundingly ignorant of American history. The issue in the race for president in 1860 was not about abolishing slavery. Only a tiny minority supported that. Abraham Lincoln was not among them, though he detested slavery. However, he did not believe he had any Constitutional authority to abolish it even if elected president, and indeed in his first inaugural address supported a Constitutional amendment to guarantee slavery in perpetuity in the south. The issue in 1860 was the desire of Lincoln and his Republican Party to prevent the SPREAD of slavery into the territories. Educate yourself, if possible.
They invoked THE BIBLE in defense of slavery.
The same bible used by Christians who outnumbered slave owners and eventually successfully ended slavery.
Christians did not end slavery. It is true that probably most abolitionists were Christians, but then so were most everyone in America back then. This also points to an unresolvable problem for you stupid Holy Babble: If the Bible were truly the word of God, how can so many people read the same text and come to diametrically opposite conclusions about what it teaches? How can your all-knowing and all-powerful God you claim exists be so astoundingly incompetent at communicating his message in a way that all can understand it and act accordingly upon it?
You know, the stupid story of Ham. Finally, neither CHRISTIANS, nor anyone else, “voted” to end slavery.
Are you saying America wasn't a democracy back then? That the Christian members of Congress who opposed slavery weren't democratically elected?
America was not and is not a democracy. It is REPUBLIC. Educate yourself if you can. My point, of course, is that in a republic, the people as a whole, Christian or otherwise, do not vote directly on passing laws. So there was never a public vote whether to end slavery and if there had been, most people would likely have voted to keep it intact. You might try to educate yourself to the fact that the North fought the Civil War to keep the Union intact and certainly NOT to end slavery. And even in the northern states at that time where slavery did not exist, blacks were not treated as citizens and were deprived of the political rights that whites enjoyed. You might try to educate yourself to those facts, if that is possible for you to do.
And you accuse me of spewing out ignorant nonsense?
Yes, that is all you ever do. You might try to educate yourself.
It was partly ended by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation,
If I recall correctly Lincoln was
elected president.
Lincoln was elected president with 39 percent of the vote in a four-way race, and he was NOT elected, as noted above, on a platform to abolish slavery. Educate yourself, please.
and later prohibited by Constitutional amendment by Congress
The democratically elected Congress.
Slavery was abolished at the end of the war because Lincoln had succeeded in convincing enough representatives, and some of the public, that ending slavery was the only way to end the war. Not because a majority of (Christian) whites opposed slavery or thought that blacks should have equal rights. You should try to educate yourself. Did you see the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln, based on the book by Dolores Kearns Goodwin, which vividly depicts these realities? If you did, you obviously understood none of it.
that was then ratified by states,
You mean the
elected legislatures of those states.
Are you American?
Yes, it was ratified by elected legislatures. So what? See above. It’s got nothing to do with a direct vote of the public, as you implied. You do not know the difference between a democracy and a republic. You should try to educate yourself.
which was not a “vote of Christian America,”
Where did those quotation marks come from?
From you.
Please stop disgracing yourself with your utter ignorance. It’s unseemly.
Most Americans in Abraham Lincoln's day were Christians. (Christians who didnt own slaves.) Prove me wrong.
LOL, SO WHAT? Of COURSE most people did not own slaves — they couldn’t afford to do so! Those good Christians who could afford slaves very happily bought them and used your Holy Babble to justify their purchases.
In his youth, Lincoln wrote a tract against Christianity. His friends destroyed it, believing it would harm his political career.
Show me the tract.
Then we'll talk.
Go use Google and educate yourself for a change. I am not going to do work for you. Lincoln’s tract against Christianity is a well-known fact of history.
Intimates said Lincoln did not believe in an after life.
Lincoln was an avid spiritualist.
Educate yourself.
I don’t even need to click your stupid link to know it’s wrong. Lincoln was NOT a spiritualist. HIs wife was. After their beloved son Willie died, she conducted seances in the White House to try to contact him. Lincoln went along with this BS to humor her. He was very protective of her.
His racial views are complicated, as like everyone he was a product of his time. But his stance against slavery was unwavering.
Yes. He quoted bible verses in support of his position.
So what? Everybody quoted Bible verses back then. Lincoln was talking to a Bible-suffused pubic and used the kind of language that people could understand.
Lincoln hoped that freed slaves would VOLUNTARILY leave the country, because he believed — who can even now say he was wrong, in MAGAt America?
Dont get distracted.
This isnt about Trump.
Sure it is. Even today America is racist. Lincoln understood the racism of Christian America quite well, which is why he correctly foresaw racial strife would occur far into the future.
