The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament

[Angrboda]

Would you like some paper on which to write your bible?

What God revealed to them either was not moral because today we have the 'correct' moral view on such things, according to your timeless god.  Or, what god revealed to them was moral, and those Christians who oppose slavery are immoral, according to your timeless god.  Which is it?

Damn, girl. Is this really that hard? You keep trying to force a false dilemma on me, but I have already stepped between its horns.

What God revealed to the Israelites was that which they could handle at that time. And it was progress toward a higher standard. Would you care to concede that progress, btw?

Moral standards for slavery in the ancient world were all over the map. Hebrew slavery standards weren't so much a step forward as a lateral move into more of the same. And you here are trying to sidestep the immorality of your god by claiming that a little immorality isn't a bad thing so long as its justified by a small amount of progress. You haven't stepped between the horns. You've just stepped in the shit. Teaching the Israelites a slightly immoral set of slavery practices is still immoral. What 'progress' the Israelites made does not morally offset the cost to foreign slaves as well as Hebrew ones. If that isn't clear to you, I don't think you grasp the nature of morals. A good done to one set of people does not make a harm to another set of people moral.