Slavery (on Thursdays)

[Esquilax]

Apparently you guys never read what I posted

Oh, I did. I was just hoping I wouldn't have to deal with the usual sloppy, dishonest apologetic about this. Unfortunately, you're clearly as dishonest as the rest of your ilk.

"Jewish law required that a slave could go free in the seventh year of service"

That's one Jew, enslaving another Jew. Foreign slaves can be kept indefinitely, passed down along ancestral lines like property, and bought from the slave markets of other tribes.

Oh, and the passage about when a Jewish slave could be set free goes on to detail a method by which a slave owner can trick the slave into staying on forever. So... lie of omission, or just ignorance?

"Brutal treatment of any slave, whether Hebrew or heathen, secures his immediate liberty."

But according to the bible you can beat your slave until they die, just so long as they do so a couple of days after a beating, instead of straight away. The best you can say is that you've found a contradiction in the bible.

see number 1

... Except if you're foreign, or a victim of that trick I told you about.

see 1 and 2

Ditto.

I guess you got me there.

Slavery is immoral, mostly because of this power imbalance between slave and owner.

again see number 2

I wonder, did you just not read everything the bible has to say about slavery, or are you just hoping I hadn't?

"In Hebrew law, the slave was not a thing, but a human being; he was not the chattel of a master who had unlimited power over him."

"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)"

That's from the bible, you know.

like I said the word for slave and servant in ancient Hebrew are the same, in fact the word "slave only appears twice in the King James version of the Bible. Otherwise it uses the words "servant" or "Bond servant"

Definition
bond·ser·vant (bŏnd′sûr′vənt)
1. A person obligated to service without wages.

in other words an intern.

See the bible passage I just quoted. Does that sound like an intern to you?