TYT- Tucker Carlson: Christians Ended Slavery & Jim Crow

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared that all slavery in the world had been eradicated thanks to the Christian faith.

At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, conservatives accused President Barack Obama of comparing Christianity to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS when he observed that many religions had been used to justify violence throughout history.

"So we're responsible for the Crusades a thousand years ago?" Carlson complained. "Who's 'us' anyway? And by the way, who ended slavery and Jim Crow? Christians. The Rev. Martin Luther King. Christians."

"Christianity is the reason we don't have slavery in the world today," he added. "I mean, talk about ahistorical."*

Read more here: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/tucker-carlson-christianity-reason-we-dont

[still_one]

1. They also propagated it, and looking at our history, it was these "good Christians" that had slaves

Gotta love their tunnel vision

[Major Nikon]

2. The Civil War, Jim Crow, white supremecy, and anti-miscegenation were all sold by Christianity

[RoBear]

3. "tunnel vision"

absolutely. Thanks. I've been trying to spread the idea that "good Christians" were the biggest perpetrators of slavery in the south.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. There's NOTHING "Good Christians" WON'T do!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. This is like a study answering the question, "Where does it lead when you start lying?"

[radicalliberal]

6. Oh, you mean "Christians" such as Jerry Falwell, W.A. Criswell, Billy James Hargis, etc.?

Is that what you mean, Tucker?

Sure, there was a strong biblical influence in the civil rights movement. But the fact remains that the Religious Right of that time perverted a certain passage in Genesis 9 to justify Jim Crow. In fact, the original Religious Right was the Ku Klux Klan. Bob Jones University was founded by a KLAN SPOKESMAN!

The political conservative establishment of the time attacked the civil rights movement and opposed civil rights legislation and laws, as well as pro-civil rights rulings by federal courts. Martin Luther King Jr. was DESPISED by political conservatives. I would challenge anyone to name any leading conservative figure of the time who opposed Jim Crow. And I don't mean someone who was liberal then, but became conservative later. I mean someone who was conservative at the time.

I ought to know. I grew up during this period.

I'll give the Southern Baptist Convention credit for their apology for their past support of slavery and Jim Crow -- although, as far as I'm concerned, it's too little, too late.

Tucker Carson is a LIAR!

Careful, Tucker, lying is a sin.

It's also a sin to take credit for someone else's hard work especially when you were on the opposing side!

[panfluteman]

7. So - Does the Bible Have Any Verses That Explicitly Condemn Slavery???

It's my strong suspicion, not yet thoroughly studied or proven, that you can find passages of biblical scripture that come down on both sides of every controversial issue in human history. So - I have posed the above question. And, what were MLK's favorite Bible verses when it came to his advocacy of civil rights and racial equality? From my research, I know that there are verses from the Bible that both condemn and support astrology. And so, whatever the issue is, advocates of one side or another simply cherry pick the verses that please them.

Overall, I thought that Cenk did a great job on this video. My main criticism, however, is that that "evilbible.com" website that he got his quotes from did not give the exact chapter and verse of scripture for the quotations from the Bible. I suspect that the Old Testament quotations can be found among the 613 special laws of Moses in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. But I have no clue as to the New Testament passages. I am researching the Christian religion and Christian origins, so I would like to know.