[capitan_refugio]

"So what do you say to God when he told his people to take captives of war as SLAVES?"

So you contend God told the southerners it was okay to make africans their slaves?

"[I]t could have no effect to restrict the new state in any of its necessary attributes as an independent sovereign government, nor to inhibit or diminish its perfect equality with the other members of the Confederacy with which it was to be associated." - Daniel

"I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

[4CJ]

So you contend God told the southerners it was okay to make africans their slaves?

You compared slaveholders to crack addicts. In the Bible, God commands His people to take slaves. Given the choice of your opinion or obeying God, I think the Hebrews took the wisest course.

"I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Clarence Darrow, agnostic. "I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means."