The question that makes fundies hostile

[Jacob(smooth)]

Sadly, the omnipotent God has only fuckwit humans to work with!

Sadly, the rate of change, of evolution, in society is not something which can be externally manipulated or imposed. One has only to look at the Arab spring to see that. Democracy, for example, cannot just be grafted onto people who are not ready for it. Look at Iraq! Or indeed Syria. Not for second to downplay how evil and despotic the old regimes were, they are far more dangerous places to be now!

Here's an interesting historical and sociopolitical question. If Jesus had met up with Caesar and convinced him to pass a law freeing all slaves, what would have happened in the Roman occupied world? How would the economies and infrastructure have faired?

I would imagine that they'd probably pull the same sort of sleight-of-hand that was pulled in the post-bellum south. Find all sorts of excuses to arrest the now-free slaves and then put them to work as convicts. Just make them slaves with a different name. Granted, the south did not rise to it's former *ahem* magnificence, but they'd gotten their collective ass kicked pretty good and that had a lot to do with it.

In your scenario no one would have lost any wars, so the infrastructure would not be all burned and blasted. Labor costs had just gone up, is all. I'm no economist, but it might not be so bad as you think.

But what, may I ask, has any of this have to do with the price of borscht in Minsk?
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Oh nothing. Just thinking out loud.