Fair enough. But I want us to always remove the slavery argument because the whole world is guilty of it.
There’s a hardly a civilization built without slave trade.
That said, the Judeo-Christian values didn’t exist in a vacuum. They came from a transcendent Law Giver. God.
So, if we agree the modern world was built shaped by Judeo Christian values, then a revival is needed to acknowledge that God again so we keep adherent to His laws which built our world.
That’s the point. And yes. Nigeria has a morality problem. And there’s no morality without a transcendence universal moral Law Giver.
That’s why we need God here. Jude, an economic boom with an immoral paradigm is still poverty.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. You're right about Sokoto and Kanem-Bornu. Slavery in Africa was real and brutal, and I'm not pretending otherwise.
But the research behind that 2.5 million figure for Sokoto ranks it second in the world. First was the United States, with 4 million enslaved people in 1860. That was a country with rule of law, property rights and free markets. The problem is that its law protected slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act forced free states to return people who escaped, and Dred Scott ruled that Black Americans could never be citizens. When Britain ended slavery in 1833, it respected "property rights" by paying £20 million to slave owners. The enslaved got nothing.
So rule of law and slavery weren't opposites. For a long time, the law was how slavery was enforced.
A couple of quick corrections if I may. The New Laws were passed in 1542, not the 14th century. And "innocent until proven guilty" isn't in Magna Carta. Clause 39 protects free men from punishment without lawful judgment, which is a different principle. Juries also existed before it, under Henry II in 1166.
I can’t argue against the merits of the Judeo-Christian values, they shaped our society, mostly for good. I guess my qualms with the preacher or part of his message I listened to was that he didn't credit institutions. He said revival and the power of the Holy Spirit built America. That's a different argument from the one you're making.
My point is that you can't tell the story of British and American wealth and leave out the millions of people whose forced labor helped build it. Both things are true. We should teach both especially in a time like this when people know so little history of how we got here.
P.S. I agree Africa is as guilty of slavery as the imperialists. But that is a topic for another day. 🙏🏽