Why the Bible Doesn't Condemn Slavery

[Chad32]

The bible says that slaves can be passed down from parents to children, and isrealite slaves are explicitly referred to as property after they accept a wife and you drive a nail through their ear. This, plus the fact that you're allowed to beat a slae half to death as long as he doesn't die one or two days later shows that these people had no rights. People bought from other tribes were there for life, and people who accepted a wife were there for life.

If it could not be dismantled overnight, your god is not as smart or as powerful as you'd like us to believe. Where in the bible does it speak of efforts to abolish the practice altogether? Even when it says you're supposed to release isrealite servants after seven years, it still allows for a loophole where you don't have to. This is the most bare bones treatment to a problem as I can imagine.

Anyone who can be considered the property of another person doesn't hae as many rights as they deserve. It says right there that these people are property that can be handed down from person to person, and can be beaten half to death. They are also commanded to obey the cruelest of masters.

Yes I can imagine that people placed more emphasis on worshiping god than actually helping society. That's a big reason why religion is screwed up, and tends to hold society back more than it raises it up.

Yes, after secularists dragged religious people kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, some of them began taking more progressive views like maybe a representative republic would suit society better than a theocracy.

I have always wondered why Yahweh's opinion of right and wrong so closely follows the opinions of the people living at the time, except maybe slightly more progressive.