Social Darwinism is a retroactive description of the colonial environment, not the religion that was used to tolerate it.
The religious model of racism is still very active today, I.e. see Louis Theroux visit with racists in South Africa.
There are race oriented people who want to divide things on race but are either inconsistent or their fears mean they understand that race does not limit capability and there are racist people who believe in inherent inferiority of races, the first tends toward social Darwinism the second to apply the justification "God gave us rule over the inherently more limited" to the "child" races. If you are standing in for a hellfire God where is the line on torture? If you are responsible for order delegated by God and can find normal human failings then you can run the plantation to your profit.
Social Darwinism is a retroactive description of the colonial environment, not the religion that was used to tolerate it.
The religious model of racism is still very active today, I.e. see Louis Theroux visit with racists in South Africa.
There are race oriented people who want to divide things on race but are either inconsistent or their fears mean they understand that race does not limit capability and there are racist people who believe in inherent inferiority of races, the first tends toward social Darwinism the second to apply the justification "God gave us rule over the inherently more limited" to the "child" races. If you are standing in for a hellfire God where is the line on torture? If you are responsible for order delegated by God and can find normal human failings then you can run the plantation to your profit.