Why does science always upstage God?

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Oh god, another slavery revisionist.  Here to harangue us about our morals.

Why is it always the same constellation of shit with you people?  God do a lil typo when he was scribbling on your hearts?

Exodus 21:16 “Now one who kidnaps someone, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall certainly be put to death.

So there is a clear distinction here that kidnapping and selling/buying people is a capital offense. So now, as we read the rest of what Moses wrote about owning slaves in the later books, this would be the assumed context under which buying/selling slaves was immoral. But there are other contexts, like selling yourself into slavery to pay a debt.

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Fair enough to your first sentence. I can see that you're trying to have a standard and apply it objectively. That standard only works when people like you and I are policing each other. Once an crazy dictator comes along the system gets dicey. Obviously, your standards assume not a crazy dictator, haha. Unless you're actually Kim Jong-un and I don't know it, haha.

I think we can agree it's an abuse of the Bible in your second sentence. I don't think we should use this kind of argument because you and I know the difference. For example, I don't fault atheists because Jeffrey Dahmer used atheism to validate eating people. Clearly that's an abuse of atheism.


It was definitely limited by law, so it could not be indefinite.