(January 7, 2012 at 11:19 pm)organiccornflake Wrote: Response to TDOA: It is reasonable to be assumed that the slave laws for the Jewish to be applied to every slave. The bible simply just referred to the Jews because they were the biggest example going on at the time.
Considering that all of the passages about slavery in regards to 'treat them well' specifically state to do this to the 'children of israel' and family, this is very much not a reasonable thing to assume it applies to everyone at all considering that the bible states otherwise.
Look through my responses to Chipan in the "easy Arguements Against the Bible thread" and you'll see what I mean. This is entirely backed biblically and Chipan attempted to argue the same points.
I'm sure he'd say that he succeeded, but he didn't just as I'm sure you would on the same points.
In lieu of re-doing all the research I've already myself, I'll simply refer you here. It's not quite as detailed as my points, but you get the drift of it.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan