(August 1, 2023 at 12:07 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(July 31, 2023 at 8:55 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: You're a thankless shithead to all the heros of the past who made incredibly difficult incremental progress towards the recognition of human rights that now, in retrospect, seem obvious. But they definitly were not obvious back then.
And the reason it wasn't obvious in the past was because people followed the Bible where god clearly expects from people to keep slaves; makes it clear that every man is free to sell his daughter into sexual slavery; Jesus did not object to the practice of keeping slaves, Paul even admonishes slaves to serve their masters well.
So while the abolitionists of the 19th century were morally right, they were on the losing side of a theological argument. As the Reverend Richard Fuller put it in 1845, "What God sanctioned in the Old Testament, and permitted in the New, cannot be a sin."
And don't forget Lot, who offered his virgin daughters to the mob if they'd just leave the two supernatural beings in his house alone. Classy, real inspirational.
