About your statement on Christianity, as someone who was raised Catholic, it is not lost on me that there was actually a Catholic church at the slave castle Elmina, Ghana, where black people were brutally tortured, killed, raped, and enslaved. If you follow Christianity, we know that what took place at Elmina was the antithesis of Christ's teachings. The point is, even armed with the goodness and kindness of religion, men find ways and excuses to do horrible things, some of which is done in the name of religion.