To Christians...Theocracy?

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We don't think Christianity created evils like slavery, we think people used Christianity as a way to justify slavery. If God had anything like the power he is meant to have, he could just stop slavery in the blink of an eye. Or just do what he did with everything else, tell them what to do, or in this case not do. You've tried hard, but I'm afraid this is the general kind of apologetic answer to slavery and it's not very strong in my opinion. The bible never condemns slavery because people at that time didn't think it was wrong. The bible tells you that you can buy slaves from the countries around you. They are your property, and you can beat them within an inch of their life without having committed a crime. This is a God, or more accurately the people speaking for God, who were perfectly fine with it. The fact that morality has since changed is not surprising, yet the book is stubbornly kept the same. The problems between the rift of two thousand years just becomes more and more apparent.

If you want to know what really happened regarding slavery, here's some footage:

http://youtu.be/dDgCnoCMf9k