Why were so many European intellectuals racist

>>8659410
Why are you a retard?

>>8659412
no, but answer the question

I mean, when you encounter Sub-Saharian Africans for the first time and realize that they haven't even advanced beyond the stone age, its quite "logical" at that time to be racist

>>8659410
SAGE

Nothing to do with /lit/

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>>>/his/

I understand how prominent racism was in those times, but there must have been a large minority that disagreed, especially since basically all Reformed Christians and most Protestants reject racism. Also, the New Testament quite clearly rejected racism in Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11, Romans 10:12 etc. Considering the views of the pagan world at the time on the things like race, slavery and class, the New Testament was pretty radical. It even went against what many Jews thought was acceptable.
My point is, despite Catholicism being quite flexible and departing from Biblical orthodoxy (obviously that's just the Protestant view, I don't mean to sound flippant), surely there was a large number of people who didn't accept the idea of racial hierarchy.