RE: Is Christianity Inherently Supportive Of Slavery And Misogyny?
July 28, 2021 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2021 at 8:16 pm by Paleophyte.)
(July 28, 2021 at 1:37 am)Huggy Bear Wrote:(July 27, 2021 at 11:51 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Cite chapter and verse.
Pro tip: If a bunch of white dudes have a problem with the slavery in your religion then your religion has a problem.
Leviticus 25
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Every 50 years?!? That's impressively bad. Pretty much a death sentence given the life expectancy back then. Now let's look at those ifs, ands, or buts that you claim aren't there. Just a little further down the page we find:
" And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile. And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God."
Leviticus 25: 39-43
Translation: Thou shalt not have Israelite slaves. Israelites in your service must be released on the year of Jubile
"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour."
Translation: You can have heathens as slaves, bought and sold as possessions, and you may keep them forever regardless of how many Jubilees they might live through.
So yeah, slaves according to god's on laws personally handed to Moses on Mount Sinai. No Ifs, Ands, or Buts.
(July 28, 2021 at 1:28 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: Your assumptions are baseless, you conflate indentured servitude with slavery, where in the King James English, the word SLAVE only appears twice the bible, once in the old testament and once in the new testament, the word SERVANT is used IN ALL OTHER INSTANCES, which shows a clear distinction between the word servant and slave.
Hows is it that your apparently prodigious brain can't understand that?
Because or prodigious brains recall the tale of how the Israelites were slaves in Egypt without the actual word "slave" ever being used in the narrative. Or are you suggesting that Pharaoh employed indentured servants?
