Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?

[Rhondazvous]

Slavery is a non issue in Scripture because we are all slaves to something or someone. we in modern time simple relable our slavery into various sub catagories and then it becomes not only ok but expected in some instances. What we don't rename draws a picture of what slavery was in the 17th and 18th century on plantations in the US. Now the word 'slavery' only means a black man in a field being worked to death, but in the time of Christ slavery meant being poor, and making a living for yourself and your family. Got to remember the world did not have the same dependence on currency we do now, and a lot of what was done was on barter. 10 years of slvery= 10 years room board for you and your family. This is the biblical picture of slavery that many of you don't seem to get. not just a white man beating a black man in a cotton field.

I find it unacceptable that a book which purports to be a moral guide is silent on an issue of moral values just because it was a non issue for the society in which it was written. You and your god have to do better than that.