Is Christianity Inherently Supportive Of Slavery And Misogyny?

[Rev. Rye]

I wouldn’t say it’s inherently supportive of slavery and misogyny, but I would say it’s easy to make the doctrine supportive of them.

This piece from a former Gothardite Christian (y’know, the same cult the Duggars follow[ed]) is a fairly illuminating piece on how, when the Old and New Testaments were written, slavery was a normal state of affairs, and women were expected to be under the care of (depending on their age) their fathers, husbands, or eldest sons. He also argues his view as an Evangelical Christian (if very much a dissident one, who eventually had to leave when the Evangelical movement swallowed the Trump Flavor-Aid and he and his family refused to): That the Mosaic Code to which many cleave was actually an imperfect compromise between what God really wanted from the Israelites and the realities of their culture.

If nothing else, it’s a fairly decent Watsonian explanation of how morality tends to change, why slavery was seen as okay then but very much not now, even if the Doylist explanation that people just start to figure out that certain things are bad on their own time is much simpler.