Posted on 05/31/2009 9:26:02 AM PDT by Freepmanchew
The topic of slavery is usually accompanied by bitter feelings and condemnation for Americas past. Like America, many civilizations have used slavery as a means of providing labor. Samarian drawings on clay tablets dating back to 4000 BC show captives taken in battle being tied, whipped, and forced to work. Then there are ancient papyrus manuscripts from 2100 BC that record the ownership of slaves by private citizens in Egypt. The earliest mention of slavery in the Bible would be Genesis 9:25 when Noah cursed the descendants of Canaan. From Abraham on down we read of the men in the Bible owning slaves and the Israelites themselves becoming slaves, but never do we read of God condemning slavery. We do read of Him telling Moses how to treat slaves in Exodus chapter 21, but neither God nor Jesus ever condemned the practice.
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Assuming Judeo/Christian values and a Christian nation, slavery is wholly and completely evil and absolutely intolerable.
By extension, the weakening of the role of Judeo/Christian values in American society makes it entirely possible that slavery could return to America, albeit not in the form that we saw previously.
Jesus ever condemned the practice.
Same argument homosexuals who want to be priests and ministers use.
Well just off hand, there is that voluntary/involuntary thing to consider...
Being totally submissive to God is a world away from being forcibly owned by another human being.
Slavery is evil and this article is as bad as the moral relativism I hear every day from the hard left.
It's clear on reading the Bible that portions of the book imply that slavery is tolerated.
Yea, minor point -gggg
Every seven years all the Hebrew slaves were to be freed.
In the Bible God tolerates all kinds of things not within his perfect will. Polygamy for instance. That btw always led to big trouble though - eg. that whole Arab Jew thing.
Morality is pretty black and white except at the very edges where few of us ever venture.
And for those of you who think the rules are "oh so gray" let me know what rules I don't have to follow when I DEAL WITH YOU.
Sounds like a debate that was settled in this country around April of 1865.
right off the top, we need to realize that the modern usage of the word “slave” is not the same as the old bible usage. There was no distinction between indentured servitude and a slave. Today there is.
Today we are slowly bit by bit being enslaved by our government. Is that evil?
Saying “Jesus never condemned slavery” is rather lawyerly. The entire NT is strongly subversive of the practice. “there is neither Jew nor Greek, nor slave nor free” implies no qualitative difference. Compare this to the Koran, which clearly approves of the practice.
It is not an accident that the abolition movement was entirely Christian in origin.
This is a very insightful point. And it is relevant to the question of "health care reform" currently rolling its way through Congress.
Have you ever wondered why of all the public services the communist countries (e.g. Cuba) always boast of their free health care for all? The brain-dead dummies in the media are always touting the Cuban system over ours because of its health care system even though by all measures the Cuban system is backward and crude.
But the reason the communists give free health care is important too. Just as a farmer gives free health care to his animals so they can serve him so the ruling elite in the socialist countries give free health care to the workers so they can serve the state.
Slaves in the antebellum South had free health care. They had free health care because it was in the economic interest of their masters to keep them healthy enough to work. This is the logic that drives Obama and the left.
So join the chorus in the press and bleat like a sheeple. The massuh is gunna give us all free health care. And all we have to do is surrender our freedom and be willing to live like a slave.
Google “black slave owners” - rather surprising.
By extension, the weakening of the role of Judeo/Christian values in American society makes it entirely possible that slavery could return to America, albeit not in the form that we saw previously.
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The current plan is to enslave all the most productive people and make them serve the elitest oligarchy who will rule and will, in turn, dispense bread to the rabble to keep them quiet. I think it worked in Rome for a short while.
You betchurass it is.
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