(August 21, 2021 at 1:02 pm)Mashmont Wrote: Yeah, fallible humans sometimes do bad things in every organization.
Yeah, they were only doing slavery for 2 thousand years. It happens.
(August 21, 2021 at 1:02 pm)Mashmont Wrote: Biblical slavery is not remotely same as modern colonial slavery. In biblical times, people who could not pay their bills worked for a master until their debt was paid off. It's not a lot different from what today's left says about working at Walmart.
Since when it is allowed to beat up Walmart employees to the brink of death and sell their children?
“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.” (Exodus 21:20–21)
And even kill them since all bets were off if the slave was from the outside tribe.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
