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To: Nachum
The laws of Jewish slavery are not simple and have consequences for both slave and master.

No argument there. But I wince whenever people rip islam for "theocracy," "intolerance," "backwardness," etc., which are also found in the Torah.

The point is, all the Laws of the Torah are eternal, no matter how out of step with the contemporary world. Rabbi Yirmiyahu Bindman deals with these theoretical laws of slavery and polygyny (more than one wife) as they apply to non-Jews in his book, The Seven Colors of the Rainbow.

66 posted on 11/11/2003 3:55:09 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator ("Palaeoconservatives" are national relativists.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
No argument there. But I wince whenever people rip islam for "theocracy," "intolerance," "backwardness," etc., which are also found in the Torah.

It is a specific sign of evil when one is cruel to the kind and kind to those who are cruel. It is particularly frustating when kindness of Judaism is equated with the cruel and idolotrous practices of Islam. The Torah is hardly backward or intolerant and does not in any way mimic the murderous evil that is found in the Koran and the Wahabbists who practice it.

68 posted on 11/12/2003 9:13:24 AM PST by Nachum
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