I bet you're still sore at the loss of slavery which meant that goods became more expensive because they had to pay their workers a living wage rather than
keep slaves...
Slaves were property and thus slave owners had the financial incentive to
keep their slaves alive and in good health, but incarcerated ex-slaves, who were leased to businesses, were replaceable, leading many white business owners to mistreat or even kill their black incarcerated laborers.
«I usually get a kid to challenge me,» Monastero says, «and to ask, «Aren't you fighting for other people to
keep their slaves?
It illustrates how those who
keep slaves are rendered crueller and lesser, tortured by both their own capacity for sadism and their inescapable humanity
All them Northerners keep saying I can't
keep slaves and saying how public opinion is changing towards owning humans, but they can all just go with the flow if they like, i'll be staying alive swimming against the current for as long as my racist arms will carry me...
Imagine Northerners leaving the South to
keep slaves as personal choice.
, but it's OK for you to
keep slaves and make your wife submit to your will.
If it wants to
keep slaves, it may.
Supposedly, the «love thy neighbor» edict was supposed to free the people's minds from the need to
keep slaves.
Which didn't work, because people still
kept slaves.
It is a comfy couch for the mentally lazy, a one stop shop for all your answers, written just for you several thousand years ago by men who
kept slaves and believed in monsters and jealous Gods.
They weren't thinking trade during King Philip's War or during the Trail of Tears (not to defend them too much because a lot of those southern NAs
kept slaves, so they got what was coming to them).
He was a very complex man: but
he kept slaves, despite his writing about all men being created equal.
And Exodus 21: 20 clearly gives notes on what should happen when a slave is beaten to the point of death or near death, not to mention the other rules of who should be set free, what to do with the slaves» children, how many years to
keep a slave... It doesn't sound very different at all from our modern view of slavery.
Keeping slaves and beating them is ok, is it!?»
Keep slave naked, and working for Master, possibly eventual full ownership, 24/7.
Although Julia was married to the commander in chief of the Union armies in the war that would end slavery in the United States forever,
she herself kept slaves.
Even Cornelius, the villain of the novel, engages in acts of kindness, although he is motivated by
keeping his slaves in good health so they can reproduce.
The truth is, minimum payments are a sneaky trick designed to
keep you a slave to credit card debt.
Speaking of torture, which was routinely used to
keeps slaves in check as well, Jack M. Balkin has a transcript of John Yoo on the Jon Stewart show, talking about the Torture Memos.
Not exact matches
It's certainly a lot closer to driving the change Victoria's Secret claims it wants to see, instead of what it's doing now which is maintaining the structure that actually
keeps people poor — and kids
slaving away in cotton fields.
Focusing solely on cardio and becoming a
slave to the treadmill is not only unhealthy, it also
keeps you from exploring the gym, getting acquainted with other workout regimens, and spending more time on important things like strength training.
In the end, though, it's possible 12 Years a
Slave's grim subject matter
kept it from discovering greater box - office success.
I can see commands like stabbing pregnant women through the womb to kill the next generation of a conquered city, and
keeping all the young virgins as sex
slaves for what it is.
The same is true of the tactic of capturing women and children as war booty and
keeping or disposing of them as
slaves.
Keep it in context you will note they were reminded of their oppression as
slaves under Egypt and set free by God.
I
kept you from being
slaves, but have no problem if you own
slaves and beat them with rods as long as the live «a day or two».
Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their
slaves instead of
keeping them?
The real Tom «Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their
slaves instead of
keeping them?»
Keep in mind that the general public was racist and did not like to see authority of any kind granted to those they deemed ought to be
slaves.
A religious text that can be used to justify everything from unselfish acts of kindness to the
keeping of
slaves and the mistreatment of women is worthless.
No, because the bible clearly instructs that while you should kill all the men, you should
keep the women and children as
slaves, and
keep the animals and property as spoils.
It sounds to me like Lucifer freed Adam and Eve from the prison known as Eden where humans were experimented on and
kept as
slaves.
The fact that god didn't just come out and say «hey don't
keep all the virgins as
slaves» doesn't bode well for your god.
So... because the culture said it was okay for invading armies to rape the women and
keep them as
slaves, god just told them to go ahead and continue doing that?
The
Slave Dynasty was an oligarchy of Turks which jealously
kept the doors shut against the non-Turks.
keep chatting away if it pleases your infantile
slave mind!
Also note that early settlers in the Americas also
kept Irish
slaves initially... it wasn't just blacks.
When, however, the same sin says, Be independent; don't be a
slave of old codes; all the world loves a rebel; show the stuff you are made of by breaking free from cramping restrictions which
keep your native instincts down; be a man!
Females and non-Jews were
kept as
slaves in the normal sense, however.
Also unacceptable, he said, is the alternative of freeing the
slaves and then
keeping them here as «underlings.»
When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to
keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by faith in Jesus Christ (that faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be
slaves, to be
kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men,
keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying
slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as
slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
Creationism should be indicted for the millions if not billions of lives it has destroyed over the millennial, the oppression of women, torture of millions during the Inquisition and the
keeping of
slaves.
These are the facts you are ignoring: The Bible makes it clear that
slaves, at least non-Hebrew
slaves, could be
kept in slavery forever.
If it is truly immoral, then why not say so instead of giving rules on who you can have as a
slave, how much you pay, how long they need to survive after you beat them to avoid consequences, not to mention a loophole on how to
keep a Jewish
slave forever instead of the 7 years.
Until you can at least fucking admit it says that the
SLAVES WERE PROPERTY, which you have still not fucking addressed, probably because you want to
keep your happy happy view of the bible intact, then we can move onto another aspect of this.
After all, the Constitution nowhere contains the word
slave, an omission that the late Don E. Fehrenbacher suspected was a deliberate tactic of the authors of the Constitution to
keep the federal government from having jurisdiction, or responsibility, for slavery.