RE: Atheists; what do you base your morals on?
March 23, 2013 at 1:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2013 at 1:26 am by Ryantology.)
(March 22, 2013 at 7:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: God was fully aware that change would take a long time and advised people accordingly.
Yeah, because there's no way he could have changed that instantly or anything. It must suck being all-powerful and beyond time and still at its mercy.
Not to mention, he outright orders the murder of people for crimes far less serious than slavery, such as not worshiping him or picking up sticks on the sabbath. All throughout the Old Testament, God visits swift and disproportionate retribution for the silliest of infractions. He never shows any kind of understanding. The idea that 'it would take time' is absolutely alien to the impulsive tyrant of the Old Testament. At no point, anywhere in the Bible, is slavery mentioned as a negative practice, nor is it ever condemned by God. Instead, God practically gives Moses directions to Slavemart so he can make sure he gets all the slaves he wants.
It is an undeniable fact that God approves of, and explicitly encourages slavery.
