[ProgressingAmerica]

Kirk requests for the question asker to read a specific verse, Philemon 1:16 to challenge their claim of slavery as a Biblical value.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

There would have been no abolition movement without the Bible. Period. Whether here or in the UK.

But the problem is enough hypocritical, misguided ‘Christians’ existed in the south etc…

[CondoleezzaProtege]

“LONG BEFORE CANNONS FIRED over Fort Sumter, civil war raged within America’s churches. Three of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations were torn apart over slavery or related issues.”

https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/broken-churches-broken-nation

[Carry_Okie]

How slavery was to be managed in the Second Temple Period was never fully enforced because the Sabbath for the Land wad never practiced as originally specified. By a more literal reading of Ex. 23:11, the landowner was to release and abandon the land, leaving it in the possession of his slaves for the year.

Better treat them right, don't you think? That was the kicker. Slavery as a matter of private property was the guts of the Biblical social welfare system. What we have done without it is to socialize the poor. Didn't work, did it? When slavery became an income for its administrators because of the value of indentured constituency in a democratic system, it has become so expensive we could all end up in bonded servitude. How to resolve that paradox with humanity in the resentful culture it has produced is our challenge today.

Christ understood that original specification, speaking from that perspective in Matthew 25.

[Albion Wilde]

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