RE: Why does science always upstage God?
October 12, 2021 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2021 at 12:15 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 12, 2021 at 11:52 am)ayost Wrote: So now, as we read the rest of what Moses wrote about owning slaves in the later books, this would be the assumed context under which buying/selling slaves was immoral. But there are other contexts, like selling yourself into slavery to pay a debt.
Especially the context of newborn children having to pay their own debt to their slaveowner
Quote:When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,” then his master shall bring him to God, and ... he shall serve him for life.
Exodus 21:2–10
Not to mention that "serve him for life" bit that comes as blackmail if a man wants to be with his family.
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"
