How Slavery Was Justified by Religion

How Slavery Was Justified by Religion
We should be worried about the return of slavery in the 21st century under the Islamic Laws at the hands of the Islamic terrorists. Slavery is still supported in the Sharia law of Islam

However, historically, The Church supported Slavery for 100s of years. It stopped supporting slavery after it was banned from the world 150 years ago not before.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus have endless Verses about how the sons of Ham will be slaves for the sons of Shem and Japheth. The roles of slavery and how to enslave the enemies and even the Hebrose. It was ok to separate a slave from his wife and children because they still belonged to his master. It was the law to sell a man, his wife, and children to pay off a debt. But let's not talk about the Old Testament. Slavery was justified by the New Testament and practiced in the Americas by Christians for 400 years.In Mathew 18:21, Jesus parables had many slave stories as an ordinary way of life. It included a slave, his wife, and his children being sold as a standard way to pay off debt. Jesus did not condemn slavery but used it as a part of life in his parables. In Luke, Chapter 7, verse 2: 1 Peter 2:18 “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” Colossians, chapter 3, verse 22: "Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever your task, work heartily." Lincoln was Christian, and the civil war was not mainly about slavery. Lincoln did not free the slaves in America because he was Christian but because of the economic need in the north. The Civil War was about the industrial states and the factories in the north needing the resources in the south and the unity of the country, and stability of the economic power. The Union did not need slaves to work the factories, but the south required them to work the plantations. Like all wars, it was all about money. Even though, the Ameican revolution and the founding fathers'-100 years earlier- based their movement on Judeo-Christian principals, valued the 10 commandments. The forefathers founded the independence on "All men are created equal... have the right to the pursuit of happiness"... and over time the Americans added "one nation under God.. in God we trust...God bless America," and so on, the founding fathers did not free the slaves. George Washington himself owned slavesIt is true, the founding fathers separated Church from State, and they were mostly Christians. They were divided into 3 groups. A small group left the Judeo-Christian tradition and became advocates of enlightenment (Deism) like Ethan Allen and Thomas Paine. A group remained traditional Christians believing in the supernatural and divinity of Jesus like Samual Adams, Patrik Henery, and John Jay. And the most significant group stayed loyal to the traditional Judeo-Christian faith with less belief in the supernaturals like Benjamin Franklin and James Monroe on the skeptical left and John Adams and George Washington on the conservative right side. None of the founding fathers did free the slaves. The pursuit of happiness was a part of the declaration of independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Apparently, the founding fathers believed in a creator how created all men equal with the right to life, liberty, and happiness except for the blacks! In God, we trust, one nation under God, and God bless America are phrases added on a continuum with the general American Judeo-Christian principals. Unless you propose the Principals of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to do with Judeo-Christianity and the Americans became gradually religious later and added these phrases. Anyhow, some of these phrases were added during the KKK era, times of severe persecution, inequality, and the segregation of the blacks.Jesus accomplished by modifying Moses' old Laws to the new Laws. Jesus almost destroyed the old law and changed or evolved the laws to the new testament. On the same token, if Judaism was OK for more than 2000 years ago and Jesus had to dramatically modify it because it was not complete, or People were not ready, then why not Christianity and other religions can be significantly changed 2000 years later because people are prepared for more or better.There is a contradiction between the old and the new testaments. But somehow the real religious people will disagree. The old bible was written about 500 BC, not 4000 BC. The first new testament was written about 60 AD. John was written about 90 AD.  The most potent roles of Christianity was written by Paul, who is not a disciple. The most powerful founder of Christianity was Emperor Constantine 325 AD. He collected a few Bibles that agreed with each other and burned thousands of Bibles which were controversial because He wanted to unite the empire. If religions evolve, then beliefs are not appropriate at all times, which is a concept no religion accepts! If religion is relevant for the past but not for now, then religion sounds like the evolution, which contradicts any religious belief. It is contradictory, like trying to modify and justify ancient knowledge to match new learning and discovery like saying the earth is flat, but it has always has been a sphere Some may say, but Christianity is different and is based on the belief of the true God who brought us salvation through the sacrifice of his only Son. Sounds very nice, but don't most religions claim the same based on different ideas? Unfortunately, faith is mostly based on where and when you are born. The religion we are born in is usually the correct belief and different from all others, and it worships the true God.  1 billion Hindus, 1 billion Buddhist, 1.6 Billion Muslims, 2.3 billion Christians divided into Evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Baptists, Jehovah's, Mormons and so on.  Belief is the end of logic.

Jesus cured the Centurion's slave as a normal thing. He did not condemn slavery or ordered the centurion to give him his freedom.
Titus, chapter 2 verse 9: "Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory, nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity."