(July 12, 2012 at 11:01 am)Brian37 Wrote: If not all slavery is bad, please provide me ONE example, back then or now, where any human would say to themselves "I'd love to be owned and abused by another human".
Careful there, your asking for another sermon about how we should be slaves to god (the "by another human" part will be conveniently left out").
As for the slaves to god thing; is it pointless to point out that this is always translated (in practice) as being at some level of slaves to a pastor? If you surrender your will to god who are you in practice surrendering your will to. It's the one who tells you what god's will is. Yeah, yeah, the pastor will always say that you must seek this yourself but it is always in practice manipulated by the one's who will benefit (the pastor). Hence the reason why this is one of the more important doctrines in Christianity.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
