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> The racism inherent in our slavery cannot be defended by any word from the Bible.

And yet the Bible is the source of that racism (at least today, with the white supremecists), with claims of "mud people" or whatever.

> It's interesting how our perceptions towards other people took a definite dive when we, as a culture, left the Bible as the primary source of truth and adopted science.

Yeah. Damned heretics and their beliefs that the Earth goes 'round the sun... everything went downhill from there! The Inquisition was the pinnacle of human achievement!

The white supremacists are quite simply wrong to defend their beliefs with the Bible. People throughout history have boasted beliefs out of their own lusts, prejudices and hatreds and have sought to condone them with shaky appeals to scripture. God--and mature Christians--have never been fooled.

The Bible is not a science book. While science has a lot to offer us today, it is a method, not a source of truth. Only the Bible provides that. When man shifted his source of truth from God's spoken word and placed his faith in man, then, yes, our progress as a culture took a direct hit.

That is not to say that in our progress as a Christian culture that we have always gotten it right. Far from it, as your reference to the Inquisition indeed proves. But we continually try to improve our lives and to the extent that we acknowledge God for who He is, and obey His word, He grants us the means to continue our journey--in this life and throughout eternity.

Damned heretics and their beliefs that the Earth goes 'round the sun...

Actually, it was the "heretics," in the person of Ptolemy, who developed a consistent geocentric theory that was accepted throughout the West for 15 centuries.

Until a devout Christian named Copernicus proved "that the Earth goes 'round the sun."