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To: Tribune7
The absolute moral crime is hate. Generally, if you enslave your neighbor that is an indication of hate, but that's not necessairly so. Are you aware that even to this day the 13th Amendment allows for slavery?

So...as long as I slaughter Mideanites__and enslave and ravage their children--without hate in my heart--it's moral? Doesn't seem all that consoling for the Mideanites to me.

All the amendments allow for slavery, to the best of my knowledge, since they mostly don't address the question.

6,627 posted on 02/21/2003 12:03:28 PM PST by donh
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To: donh
So...as long as I slaughter Mideanites__and enslave and ravage their children--without hate in my heart--it's moral?

If we bomb a couple of cities and kill 200,000 people -- most of whom are women and children -- is that moral? Would it be better to kill the women and children or turn them into slaves? How about instead of making them slaves, we let them starve to death?

The answer you have given as to why slavery, murder, genocide etc is wrong is that man is genetically programmed to be good (or follow the code of his tribe which would lead to the question what if the tribe thinks murder, genocide and enslavement is good.) That's foolishness.

You can conclude that man is bad and is meant to do bad things, or that man in fallen which means that he does bad things but is meant to do good. One of the points exmarine has made is that many of God's commands are designed to mitigate the bad.

All the amendments allow for slavery, to the best of my knowledge, since they mostly don't address the question.

After you finally get around to reading the Bible in context, read the Constitution.

6,630 posted on 02/21/2003 1:18:30 PM PST by Tribune7
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