Religious people, why was religion used as a tool for segregation if it's supposed to bring people together?

For over 400 years and counting it has been a widely held belief that black people were put on earth by God to serve the white man. Whenever I hear Christians speak of heaven it sounds like 1950's America, a utopia for only a select few while everyone else suffers, and this is supposed to seem appealing to me? When did diversity become such a bad thing, why should everything be the same way? Why even bother separating good from evil in the afterlife if we can all coexist here on Earth? Historically, we used to believe in just one underworld, but this did not prevent you from being judged accordingly for your actions. Why must there be a special place for Christians, Jews, or Muslims where only they are allowed to be there? I may be an atheist but that doesn't mean I want everyone around me to be a nonbeliever. I think you can learn a lot from those who are different from you. How would that be possible if everybody acted the same? How could you grow as person living this way? 

2021-02-23T18:41:36Z

I guess Fireball has never met a racist person before.

Pope Mobile2021-02-23T23:23:17Z

The Christian so-called faith has always rested on the support of slavery and bigotry. From being the preferred cult of that slave empire Rome, thru the feudalism serf age, into colonism and modern slavery.

When the Christian faith saw a man holding a whip and another on the ground for 20 centuries they faltered and apologized for the man holding the whip over his victims.

Publius2021-02-23T21:09:01Z

Any port in a storm, I guess.  Religion, true religion, does not divide people.  It tries to unite them.

Heidi Ho2021-02-23T18:59:51Z

Evangelical Christians didn't end slavery in America. Ha, ha, ha. Quakers, Unitarians, Baptists, (not Southern), AME, were the religious players in the ending of slavery.
 
William Wilberforce, the English evangelical Anglican politician and philanthropist, was highly prominent in ending it in England and colonies. Of course the wealth Wilberforce accumulated to be able to be a politician and a philanthropist came from his business of slave trading.
 
Only one person was a major player in ending slavery in the U.S., the non-religious,  liberal Republican who believed there existed an all powerful entity that shaped events.

Pacha2021-02-23T18:23:24Z

The Pope is trying his hardest to unite all religions because his logic is if there is only one god then you only need one religion.. Surprisingly his biggest opponents are his own clergy who are pointing the finger of accusation against him for breaking with tradition ..but are more than happy to hold the other hand out for a free meal ticket..

?2021-02-23T18:20:12Z

Tools can be misused.

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