Religion is a poor source of morality

[Godscreated]

Minor quibble... slavery in the Bible was just as bad as "modern" slavery. There are verses which specifically state that it's okay to beat your slave to within an inch of his life, so long as he can stand again in a day or two. 

Not indicative of a better or more palatable form of slavery than what we had in the USA.

And yes, the Southern resistance to abolition had a lot to do with the Bible verses, with Southern politicians actually quoting Leviticus and other slavery-supporting verses on the floor of Congress.

Yes, but the common argument is that slavery during the biblical days weren't as bad as modern days.  Which would mean that admitting that would be to say that a worse version of slavery was developed under Christianity.

Why are you calling it the Biblical days, if you do that then you should be saying we are still in the Biblical days and the same goes if you try referring to the OT as a time, you are applying the history of a single people to the whole world. Do you believe that the Israelites were the only slave holders, they were slaves under other people. There were other nations that were using slaves and treating them terribly. Do you even know the origin of slaves during the 17th-19th centuries. The slaves that came out of Africa were already slave, they were sold by Africans to other peoples for the money, they were treated no better in Africa than they were in other countries. With this said, I'm not condoning any slavery of this type, everyone hear can tell you how much I deplore slavery and the present way black Americans are treated. My whole point is that you can't just blame a small nation who couldn't have keep nearly as many slaves as the larger countries around them that had slaves, and as far as I know those countries had no laws governing the treatment of slaves.

GC