RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 24, 2016 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 12:47 pm by Cecelia.)
Free Will is all fine and good, until you realize that God allegedly drowned 99% of the planet to get them to act the way he wanted. When people didn't act the way he wanted them to, he'd kill them. At the very least he could have told them "END SLAVERY NOW" and if they didn't listen, put a blight on them or something. Or I don't know, at the very least it'd be recorded that he said it. Jesus could have easily said it. Jesus could have talked about the evils of sexism and racism and slavery. But he didn't. Apparently they were less important than a fig tree. He certainly could have said more than "Don't hit your slaves too bad now, you hear?" I mean Jesus would have to be omniscient, or else he couldn't know that he was god. Which means he'd have known about what slavery eventually becomes. If Jesus was not omniscient, then how did he know he was god?
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
