(June 20, 2015 at 11:41 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This is incorrect.Perhaps you could point out where jeebus condemned it? Maybe even spoke against it? Gave a slave trader a dirty look?
I really don't think a person can read the life of Jesus in its entirety and come out of it having the honest (key word) belief that Jesus condones slavery.
Or, if we go looking will we find jeebus exhorting slaves to obey their masters? How can you square that with the idea that jeebus did anything other than condone it?
That was the morality of the day.
(June 20, 2015 at 11:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think choosing to not resist the enemy does not constitute as suicide.
Ahhhh. But that's not what you said at first. "Chose to die" and "choosing to not resist the enemy" are not really the same thing.
He chose to die by choosing to not resist the enemy. I wouldn't call this suicide.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
