The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament

[Esquilax]

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.

Say, that reminds me: are you ever going to get around to explaining why god's moral opinions matter one jot? I asked this days ago.

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.

Do I seriously need to explain to you how one thing being worse does not make another thing okay?

And you're going to argue that these two things are morally equivalent???

Please say no.

No, but I am arguing that they're both morally repugnant. Not equally, but it seems highly arbitrary to set the bar at child murder alone.