I quoted Jesus and you still defend slavery?
“I quoted Jesus and you still defend slavery?”
That would be great if Jesus had been discussing slavery or the value of a man’s labor, which he wasn’t. In fact the verses come from the encounter where Pharisees were trying to trap him and he advises them to pay to Caesar what is owed to Caesar and to pay God what is owed to God. Taking a particular verse out of its context is convenient, but not valid.
On the other hand I brought up to you the letter of Paul’s in which he is sending the runaway Onesimus back to Philemon. It seems very odd that Paul would fail to instruct Philemon on the evil of slavery and the necessity of eliminating it in such a letter. Paul certainly wasn’t shy about condemning other practices that he wrote about, sodomy being an example.
And just to correct a bit of your flawed logic I haven’t defended slavery. I have simply asked you the source for your argument that slavery is per se a sin. So far you haven’t managed to find a reference that addresses the subject and condemns it as a sin. But you should keep trying.