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God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
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RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
(September 19, 2010 at 3:28 am)Minimalist Wrote: But not mass slavery on the later scale of the Greco-Romans.

Egypt used a corvee labor system. They employed their own citizens for building projects when the fields were flooded. Sort of an Egyptian WPA.

The Egyptians were pretty tame when it came to slavery, I read that in one of the later conquests of the Nubians by the Lower Kingdom the victorious egyptians laid out their demands that Nubia should provide 1 slave for everyday of the year at the end of the year that they had conquered the territory. So the powerful kingdom of Egypt took only 365 (give or take a few days) slaves after a massive military campaign, which shows that the Egyptians didn't seem concerned with obtaining vast numbers of slaves at all. That leads me to assume that Egypt wasn't an evil empire bent on enslaving the rest of the world as they're made out to be, if they were, using that Nubian Conquest example they could've taken thousands of slaves.

The source for that ^ by the way was taken from either a scroll or a tablet made as an assessment by the egyptians at the time, like a tax record I suppose.

(September 18, 2010 at 1:26 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:


Nice videos, you ever done one on this?

http://atheistforums.org/thread-4684.html

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God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Cerrone - September 17, 2010 at 10:29 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by DiRNiS - September 17, 2010 at 10:38 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Cerrone - September 17, 2010 at 10:44 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Skipper - September 17, 2010 at 10:58 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by IceSage - September 18, 2010 at 4:46 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by IceSage - September 18, 2010 at 1:55 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by krazedkat - September 18, 2010 at 10:07 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by solja247 - September 19, 2010 at 12:35 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Cerrone - September 19, 2010 at 3:24 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by bucky - September 22, 2010 at 9:51 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Skipper - September 22, 2010 at 10:55 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Cerrone - September 22, 2010 at 8:37 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Skipper - September 22, 2010 at 12:03 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by radames - September 22, 2010 at 8:05 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Cerrone - September 24, 2010 at 7:01 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by radames - September 23, 2010 at 1:53 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by Skipper - September 24, 2010 at 5:27 am
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by jason56 - September 23, 2010 at 8:30 pm
RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day" - by jason56 - September 23, 2010 at 8:59 pm

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