(January 24, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm)athrock Wrote: We're still talking about them 3,000+ years later, so I think the lessons were pretty memorable. Sodom and the Canaanites were obliterated because they were perverse and needed killing.
Human slavery, apparently, is not a perverse act, then.
You can roll your eyes all you want, but I'd say no. Slavery under the guidelines established in the OT was not (to God, apparently) as perverse as the killing of innocent children who were sacrificed to idols.
I mean seriously? One the one hand, the Canaanites were heating up these metal statues of their gods and then placing children onto the arms of these hot statues, and you could hear and smell the sizzling of their flesh. That's perverse.
On the other hand, slaves who were well-treated by their owners could live a long life...have a wife and children. Beats being killed in battle or being thrown into debtors' prison, doesn't it? That's not perverse, dude. That's humane.
And you're going to argue that these two things are morally equivalent???
Please say no.
