(January 10, 2015 at 10:16 am)Tonus Wrote:(January 10, 2015 at 4:03 am)Grasshopper Wrote: I'm just baffled that people think Christianity is the root of all evils like slavery.That's not what people think. People simply wonder how a nation of people governed by the almighty god of all creation --a moral arbiter of utmost purity backed by irresistible power-- nonetheless took, bought, and kept slaves, to the extent that they had to write out rules for managing them. Or that this is defended under the idea that the social and cultural mores of the time were too much for that god to overcome. There is no sensible defense of the use of slavery by Israel that is described in the Bible.
This.
God provided rules for some silly stuff in the Old Testament. Exodus 23:19 states:
Quote:Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
God could make a rule about boiling goats but couldn't explain that slavery was wrong?
Sometimes I think that religious people don't really understand the concept of being omnipotent. Their mythological god can supposedly do ANYTHING. He killed a man for putting out his hand to stop the freaking ark from tumbling to the ground. This same god couldn't say, no slaves?
