Eldridge did as good as job as anyone exposing slavery as unbiblical and vile, but the slippery nature of the bible is that men use it to justify torture, terror, and tyranny. Robert E Lee wrote that pain of slavery was intentional, that pain “was necessary for their instruction.”

How that jived with “do unto others” Masser Robert wasn’t overly concerned with.

But why enslave blacks? There is not a single credible verse of the bible which picks out blacks for enslavement. In fact, by the South’s own logic, they should have been enslaved when they lost the war, because in the past, the losing people in war, were enslaved.

I didn’t notice a lot of these “religious” folks in the South signing up to be enslaved, tortured, whipped, or have their children sold. If they really believed in the bible, why would they not volunteer to be slaves?

The answer is, they never believed in the bible in the first place. It was always just an excuse. And they knew it.