Assertion: religion | /r/CapableOf | resist the abolition of slavery
Facets:
value: consistently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Most religions have consistently resisted progress--including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state/church separation.