Religion In The 18th Century

In view of the fact that slavery was not criticized until the middle of the eighteenth century, there was no need to create any ideological protection for it rationale. Nothing, however, could stop people from thinking that predisposition for slavery was inherent for “Negroes”, and the fact that they were defective seemed obvious. Taking into consideration that in the second half of the seventeenth century the most of Protestants were convinced that a faithful person simply must not to serve anyone else than God, so the enslavement of actual believers could have become problematic. The assertion that the condition of the soul does not have any impact on the terrestrial life had been playing a role of crucial Christian doctrine before it be-gan to lose
In the air of this egalitarian rendition of faith during that period of time, the pagan origin was the real reason of slavery that was used to excuse the congenital differences and to resist the homogenized effect of christening. The same situation occurred in the case of antisemitism, when the connection between religion and race in everyman’s mind built a ground for more opened and autonomous racism that played its role during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Joel Williamson 1984 p.40)

The roots of the two main varieties of modern racism are hidden somewhere over the skin color intolerance and are intertwined with an essential version of antisemitism that had been influencing the face of the society until the late Middle Ages. Pointing out the fact that at this period a significant amount of religious terminology was still in use and the first ray of science and naturalism had not yet shed some light on the social problems, many folks and peoples could have been given a status of castaways or slaves by the reason of some mysterious God’s decision. Appealing to