Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?

[Drich]

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.

You seem so blinded by hatred for a word, that you cant see past it to any other point beside the one that supports what you feel.
So again I will say, the reason God does not outlaw slavery is because the definition of that word has changed. Not over thousands of years but to western society in one or two generations.
What if you grandkids and their peers change the meaning of the word 'blue' to represent what you understand the word slavery to mean? then what if they want to question youre moral values/put you on trial based on your acceptance/the fact you never spoke out about 'blue' and the 2015 meaning of that word?
Again the same thing is true here. Slavery was the fundamental key to all 'modern' society at that time. without it (then as well as now) nothing gets built, nothing grows, products do not come to market city life fails. In the west, our last two generations change the meaning of the word slavery to only mean a beaten broken, unpaid black man being oppressed by a white man. From that meaning it is applied to other situations, and everytime that word is used in the bible or in life you have been 'trained' to only see that. when in fact slavery of the first century did not always mean that. It was a general term that described everything from a live in servant, to a contract worker, to a share cropper, to a personal physician who's education was paid in exchanged for so many years of service to the beaten unpaid and broken. In the bible the decernment of slavery is found in conext. Something closed minded people are not interested in.
Just because a 'hot button word' is used in the bible 2000 years ago does not mean it takes the same meaning you have been taught to understand. free yourself from the emotional ques and triggers society demands of you and be your own person. Do you own research, and come to your own understandings.