Shall we give exemptions to a church if it says «hey, the bible
says slavery is okay, so we don't have to pay people»?
Let's go back to the «GOOD OLD DAYS» of full churches, when preachers stood up in the pulpits and preached that 1) the Bible
says SLAVERY IS OK 2) Blacks are little better than MONKEYS 3) Slavery is the «natural condition» of Black people 4) Integration is the work of the devil, etc. etc..
You are the first person I know who
says slavery and mindless discriminations against women, gays, and the handicapped is PERFECT.
I didn't say the bible
says slavery is good or racial.
@Evan, Correct me if I'm wrong, but in Philemon Paul never actually
says slavery is wrong.
The NT mention slavery, regulates behavior towards slaves, but never even
says slavery as a general practice is bad, never mind prohibited.
I am
saying slavery had value.
God NEVER
said slavery was a SIN or an abomination.
Most apologists
say slavery was different then, I've never heard a serious apologist take your position.
And to mention the phsycology of the time is just another poor defense — much like
saying slavery was OK»cause that was the accepted practice (and supported by the christian book - of - silliness) at that time.
Or, the individuals who
say slavery is immoral don't understand nuance of situations and wrongly consider things that are not the same «slavery» as they know and falsely think that all things they call «slavery» are the same and are equally immoral.
The supreme court once
said slavery was ok too.
God is not
saying slavery is good, God is simply saying that to be good we must be like slaves, that's all.
I never said God
said slavery was okay.
Not exact matches
Although thousands of people have signed a petition to have shoemaker Adidas drop rapper Kanye West over his
slavery comments, the German firm
says it hasn't had any internal conversations about ending the partnership.
BERLIN, May 3 (Reuters)- Adidas remains committed to the Yeezy brand created by rapper Kanye West despite his comments describing
slavery as a choice and praising U.S. President Donald Trump, the sportswear company
said on Thursday.
We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of
slavery that you
said for our people was a choice.»
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users,
saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern
slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»
After Kanye West's comments about
slavery, the CEO of Adidas
said «there clearly are some comments we don't support.»
During a TMZ segment two days ago, West drew widespread criticism when he
said, «When you hear about
slavery for 400 years... for 400 years?
Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted distanced himself from comments about
slavery by Kanye West but
said the company has not discussed dropping the rapper as a designer.
Kanye West, the legendary rap artist, provoked controversy this week when he
said in an interview: «When you hear about
slavery for 400 years.
«Human trafficking is a modern form of
slavery taking place in every state across the country,»
said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.
Without engaging in impious mockery, let me
say that it was immoral of the God of Israel to allow its followers to engage in
slavery.
That
said, the British Empire abolishing
slavery was the result of the Slavery Abolition Act o
slavery was the result of the
Slavery Abolition Act o
Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
So to
say the reason they didn't condemn
slavery was because they didn't want a rebellion is just an excuse.
«It's only the nature of
slavery that changed,»
says Walker.
And just because Davis
said «
Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God.
«Modern - day
slavery is easy to combat, because the criminals selling the women and children need a customer,»
says Walker.
If you want to
say God was immoral you could argue subjecting the Chosen Ones to 430 years of brutal oppressive
slavery in Egypt was immoral.
The South was far too reluctant too risk
slavery (by,
say, arming the slaves) to gain victory.
You
said, «LMAO — yeah that's why we had to come up with the bill of rights and do away from
slavery.
Two hundred years from now people will look back and
say, how could people have supported
slavery in the 1800's?
The President of the Confederate State
said, «
Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God.
So,
slavery is okay in some circu.mstances, is that what you are
saying?
It was Man that
said NO MORE
SLAVERY, no God, it was man that spoke of equal rights not God, it was man that fights for that, God is self proclaimed as Jealous, a inferior personality trait in man?
I can safely
say that God is not reflected in
slavery which is why I don't treat it the same as I treat the family and church.
To
say Jesus was not against
slavery is total falsehood.
You can see the progressiveness in dealing with
slavery that would eventually lead to its demise long after the fact, but you remain blind to the same progressiveness when it comes to gender equality and insist that we should progress no further than where we were at
say in New Testament times.
All I got out of this is that Chad thinks
slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like,
say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.
A Christian activist has
said that
slavery is a significant reason why so many black children aren't... More
Since Proverbs 22:7
says, «The debtor is servant to the lender,» we always viewed debt as
slavery.
Saying there was no alternative to
slavery?
He made certain that you people hated gays, but
said nothing whatsoever about the criminality of
slavery.
The Bible
says clearly that I can sell my daughter into
slavery (Exodus 21:7).
Chad
says: «The contents of the Bible have not changed, what has indeed happened at various times is bad theology (for example asserting that the bible endorses anti-semitism or
slavery) has been corrected.»
Obviously you aren't doing anything in leviticus because the NT testement has already
said that the OT is null because jesus came, but there's still a lot of advocacy for
slavery and sale of your children, not to mention how a woman should act and how a man should act.
Slavery was originally outlawed in the west because the Christians
said they could not own or enslave other Christians.
Christian opponents of
slavery elevated biblical principles of justice and equality above individual passages that approved exclusion, Brinton
says.
I don't know how a belief system that is founded on the principle of loving others — not just
saying it, but actually doing that — can justify enslaving or supporting
slavery.