(August 22, 2021 at 9:11 am)Ravenshire Wrote:And even if it was indentured servitude. There is a reason we banned that too. Because it's also evil.(August 22, 2021 at 7:12 am)Mashmont Wrote: The Greek word, doulos as used in the Bible can be translated as slave, but also as servant. They had legal rights, weren't servants all their lives, and their circumstances weren't based on race. Often slavery in those times was the alternative to slaughter. You continue to (intentially) conflate this benign state with the current race-based colonial slavery.
Jesus didn't speak out against a lot of things that did and didn't exist then. He never specifically mentioned embezzlement, bestiality, arson, or other iniquities. You're dishonest when you say it means He was immoral for not doing so.
I have no fucks to give about how a Greek word can be translated when the description of the conditions do not support that translation. People were owned. They were property. Many of them for their entire lives, being inherited by heirs. That's not a servant, nor is it an indentured servant, your attempts to twist the language not withstanding. Nor did I claim jeebus was immoral for not speaking out, but since you brought it up, than yes, as, allegedly, the son of gawd, not speaking out against anything evil would make him immoral at best.
Nice try at the dodge though, Mushamint.
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM