RE: Whats so offensive about Christianity
December 21, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2014 at 12:03 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 21, 2014 at 10:33 am)Drich Wrote: The problem I see is that you all want to pretend that unless a black man is chained up in a field forced to pick cotton for no money, that whatever else is happening is not slavery. The problem with this closed minded (the world is flat) way of thinking? It is not consistant with the actual verifiable defination of slavery. While the black man I described falls under that defination of slavery, the word slavery is not completely defined by that one example.
The problem you have, as pointed out earlier, is that you are equivocating two different connotations of the word slavery and using the milder one, that of having to work hard for low wages, to justify your god's approval of the cruelest one, that of one person owning another as property. You are pulling a verbal bait-and-switch. People who buy cheap Chinese goods do not own another human being, they do not command their forced labor that is demanded without compensation, and they don't go over to China and beat the ever-loving shit out of the factory workers when their iPhone goes tits up. You can pretend that you're not making this false equivocation all you want, but the fact is that you are, and you are doing so in order to justify what you consider to be the moral propriety of one human being owning another simply because a book tells you that it's okay.
Others may or may not support sweatshop labor, which is not slavery in the sense meant in the Bible, but you, you support the propriety of one human being owning another as property. You believe that some people should not be free except as their master decrees. You advocate a disgusting, vile, and evil morality, and I only wish I could truck American Christians in by the busload to this thread so that they could see your iniquity and moral turpitude. I don't doubt that you'd aid the deconversion process in them.
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