Why? Christianity is not European. Even if it were, ideas are not limited by their geographical place of origin.
Really, the whole "slavery is bad" thing is of relatively recent coinage and clearly is derived from a set or sets of ideas. From a right-makes-right POV, slavery (of other people) is awesomesauce, as the kids say nowadays. You don't have to do any work. You make other people work for you, while you sit on your ass and are serviced by your numerous concubines! Sweet! People lived like that for thousands of years. To believe that slavery is bad requires a certain self-suppression (from the POV of the slave owner).
--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
There's an
> intellectual
> tradition of blaming Christianity; although that _has_ to
> be overly
> Eurocentric, right?
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