Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery
Zealots at the Gate
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Muslim and Christian Responses to Combust
"I can't tell if Matthew is about combust or he's like... I'm doing a lot of this here. Let's see where this guy's going," the author says. "There might be like a little tweaking here and there, but I think they're fairly similar." The Quran couldn't have expressly forbid slavery because it was so interwoven in pre-modern societies, Roshid Rida said. He used the American Civil War as an illustration that trying to prematurely abolish slavery can lead to civil strife on a massive scale.
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