(January 3, 2019 at 12:23 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote:(January 3, 2019 at 10:49 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: What are you talking about? You have yet to post one thing that validates your claims. Where are you suggesting the bible tells people to take slaves for life just because? Also, where does it suggest that it's okay to abuse them? If you're going to make claims, maybe assert evidence for them.
Context is everything. If you have to change it to get the results you want, then there was no point in reading it in the first place.
Leviticus 25:44-46. You can own a slave as property and you can own them for life. Provided they're a foreigner, as the Bible is racist. Exodus 21:2 says you can only own a Jewish man for 6 years.
Exodus 21:20-21. You can beat your slaves as long as you don't kill them. Sounds like a green light for abuse to me.
Like I said. It's 2019. What is your excuse for making me spell all of this out? We've all seen this before.
Lets be fair here.
We can point out all the verses in the bible, but the truth worldwide in all of antiquity is most people lived under local ruling families. And even in prior polytheism before Jews and Christians and Muslims, it was common in the age of kings to defeat rival rulers and take their land and make slaves out of the defeated.
This is the case also in India and China too when looking at human history in antiquity.
Humans worldwide lived under local rulers back then, that mistook their success as coming from a divine source, be it gods, a god, or the spirits of their ancestors as entitlement.
