The Bible got slavery wrong. It got other things right -- the Golden Rule, the Greatest Commandment -- and yes, some people were inspired to combat what the Bible got wrong ("slaves, obey your earthly masters") with what the Bible managed to get right. (Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.") The Bible is a sprawling and contradictory text and bad people have used the Bible to justify bigotry and oppression and good people have used the Bible to fight bigotry and oppression. That only shows that the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
-- Dan Savage, American Savage, p. 269
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