[donh]

Your web site was so amusing I wanted to make sure everyone got a look at it at:

http://www.christian-thinktank.com/qnoslavent.html

It wants to make a case that roman slavery was sort of an idyllic extended vacation in the bahamas, and the some of the examples had me rolling on the floor. Perhaps if Barabbas had read it, he would have mended his ways.

[donh]

ERRATUM:

Spartacus, not Barabbas, sorry.

[js1138]

It wants to make a case that roman slavery was sort of an idyllic extended vacation in the bahamas, and the some of the examples had me rolling on the floor. Perhaps if Barabbas had read it, he would have mended his ways.

Well at least you have discovered where exmarine got his degree in history. I'm certainly relieved to find that the treatment of Roman slaves was "varied". I'm sure it was under Caligula.

I continue to wonder, however, why God thought it was necessary to spend chapters and chapters of His Book dealing with the intricacies of dietary taboos, and neglected to mention that treating people as property is wrong.

I exmarine would concede this point, I would be willing to concede that Christianity invented a new paradigm for morality and was eventually responsible for the abolition of slavery. But I would insist that moral ideas evolve and change with the times, and that many of our current ideas (equality under the law) are actually new, and have no counterparts in Biblical morality.

If we strictly followed Biblical teaching, this website would not exist, because it forbids us to criticize our rulers.