You are quite right about the Bible, sadly. Throughout slavery is just accepted as a fact of life, neither good nor evil in itself.
However, I do think the notion that it’s evil grew out of biblical concepts. After all, if we’re all equally children of God how can some of us own others as chattel?
Western Civ, based on the Bible and classical civilization, was the first civilization in history to reject the idea of slavery and develop notions of inherent human rights. Never crossed the mind of any other civilization.
This is a point I make constantly. It wasn't "the bible" that abolished slavery, it was specifically Christianity with it's principle that we are all children of God and therefore equal in his eyes.
It is the ascendency of Christian ideas which destroyed slavery in Western Civilization. Of course it's still being practice by Muslims and for some strange reason our moral outrage doesn't extend to the point of doing anything about it, but then again, they weren't trying to break away from the rule of Washington D.C.
Western Civ, based on the Bible and classical civilization, was the first civilization in history to reject the idea of slavery and develop notions of inherent human rights. Never crossed the mind of any other civilization.
Exactly right. In fact, slavery is a NECESSARY consequence of Islamic teachings. Islam means "Submission."