But those are just strawman criticisms, so they're disappointing. I welcome constructive criticisms, but I'd prefer that you know what you're talking about if you're going to bring them to my attention.
You've completely missed the point of this article. I'm not saying we should never argue with passion or even with vitriol. I'm saying our anger should be on the right side of history. Conservatives and liberals both get mad when they argue against each other. The difference is that liberalism is righteous compared to conservatism. Liberals are on the right side of history. They're fighting the good fight. Conservatives haven't been and still aren't, so their fury is hollow and wasted.
Your second strawman is that you seem to think I'm a liberal. In other articles (links below) I argue against liberalism too, or at least I critique liberal and progressive values, such as secular humanism and hyper-feminine wokeness.
Some Christians did oppose slavery. Alas, they couldn't have done so on distinctively Christian grounds since the New Testament catered to the Roman norms, rather than demonstrating any uncompromising, divine source of its narratives. Christian theology is ambiguous on the moral status of slavery. On the one hand, we're all supposed to be precious, spiritually equal creations of a deity, including slaves. On the other, terrestrial life is supposed to be an ephemeral illusion compared to the eternal afterlife. And Jesus said we should sacrifice pleasures in this life to serve an absolute, otherworldly ideal. In Christian terms, then, a slave could be a good Christian and could inherit paradise in the afterlife, which is perhaps why Jesus didn't condemn slavery. Indeed, priests practically identify themselves as slaves to God.
In any case, this is irrelevant. Yes, it was progressive to end slavery, and let's assume Christianity is consistent with the condemnation of slavery. In that case, Christianity would be progressive, not conservative. Christianity came at the tail end of the Axial Age, which was a time of radical, progressive spiritual reforms. So how would that point about Christianity's opposition to slavery make for a defense of conservatism?
The personal attacks at the end of your comment are baseless. The quality of my writings speaks for itself, as does my Ph.D. in philosophy.
