[Eagle Eye]

God condemns many things more harshly than slavery. In fact, God gives instructions on how to treat slaves. He never says to get rid of them.

If you are using a Bible as a guide for morality, you won't find God calling slavery immoral. Undesirable for oneself or one's country, yes. Immoral, no.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Wow.

God allowed Israelite polygamy, but he frowned on it. Or has that page been removed from the loose leaf bible?

[Texaggie79]

Dammit, why do you have to go using my own words against me?

Do you have any IDEA the grief I suffered when I stated that not ALL slavery is immoral? I gotta find that 2 year old thread and sic all those peeps on you that tore my @$$ up. hehe

However, I do believe that the majority of southern slave owners were immoral in their ownership. This is proven by their treatment of blacks after their freedom. They refused to see them as equal human beings. God never stated that slave owners could look at their slaves as less that human. They were still equal, just under a certain type of servitude.

Another reason I believe it was immoral was that slaveowners owned the children of the slaves as well.

In the Bible, slaves were taken as a result of conquering a nation, or tribe, and or as a result of debt.