TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:Murder? yes. Slavery? no.
why the double standard? murder is thought to be more heinous than slavery and yet there are different degrees of it. are some types of slavery not more wrong than others?
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:Except that he has also allowed moses and his armies to take slaves and wives from fallen enemies. He never outright says that slavery is necessarily bad either - but he isn't opposed to it and he even gives instructions on how to go about it.
this is something i'll look into more to get the whole story. thank you for challenging my faith.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:That doesn't really make them less property in treatment or otherwise.
well they cannot be sold as property. it discourages physical punishment (why would you beat someone you love? and how does that show your love?). it puts them on more equal ground as a wife is not a servant and they aren't commanded to obey their husbands. it makes the husband care more about the person if she's his wife.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
