You posted several comments in this thread that stirred up controversy and took the discussion away from the kind of discussion we would hope for on a sensitive topic like this. The guidelines ask us to avoid this, and other comments of yours in other threads have also been inflammatory. Please make an effort to observe the guidelines, particularly these ones:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm unaware of a large non-Christian population living in the Confederate States of America.

The western, Christian values explicitly had slavery in them. The slave owners were Christian. I don't really see how religion has to do with the abolishment of race-based slavery, sadly.

I legitimately can't tell if this is satire.

Anyway, as a Black Christian, I always tell people on both sides -- know what religion is most responsible for slavery in the US?

Christianity.

And also, know what religion is most responsible for freedom for Black folks in the Us?

Also Christianity.

It's just complicated.

Not "western" of course, but the traditions/organization of Black churches.