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Originally Posted by terrazoids
But slavery is wrong, and countries based on Buddhism seem to have a lot of it.
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Let's examine that.
Countries which
wikipedia notes as having problems with slavery either now or within the last few years:
Sudan: Muslim/Christian.
China: Buddhist/Taoist.
Nepal: Hindu.
India: Hindu/Muslim.
Brazil: Christianity.
Mauritania: Muslim.
Niger: Muslim.
Iraq: Muslim.
Ivory Coast: Muslim/Christian.
Haiti: Christian.
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Illegal enslavement of agricultural labor persists in Florida in the United States. The Modern-Day Slavery Museum documents seven cases, involving over 1,000 people kept in slavery, of farm labor servitude successfully prosecuted in the US courts there in the past fifteen years. Singling out Florida may give a false impression, since, in the 1980s, cases involving agricultural slavery in the USA were prosecuted across the Southeast states
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The list above isn't comprehensive, of course, and the countries notorious for sex-trafficking need to be added, but I think it's clear that it isn't the predominant religion which encourages slavery, but the economic conditions and historical context.
Graham