Slaves Suffered More Than Jesus
As a Black person, one thing I’ve never understood is why Christians constantly frame Jesus’ suffering as the ultimate suffering in human history.
Jesus suffered for a day before being executed. Horrific? Sure. But enslaved Africans suffered for generations: kidnapping, rape, torture, family separation, forced labor, branding, starvation, and entire bloodlines living and dying in bondage. Millions went through unimaginable suffering with no promise of resurrection three days later.
And historically, many Christians either supported slavery outright or used the Bible to justify it.
So when people act like the crucifixion is the greatest suffering ever experienced by humanity, it honestly feels disconnected from real history. Human beings especially slaves endured horrors on a scale far beyond one execution.