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what are you saving up for (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Here's my personal fave:

20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Exodus 21:20

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most Christians believe the old laws of Israel were abolished by Christ.

Some of us believe he was a philosopher, and verses like this are contradictory to his general philosophy, therefore obviously not part of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

and verses like this are contradictory to his general philosophy, therefore obviously not part of it.

No, Jesus condoned slavery. Both explicitly by using slavery as a metaphor, and using it in his parables, and implicitly by never once simply saying, "hey guys, maybe humans shouldn't be seen as property."

Instead he said things like:

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

(Law that includes separate rules for treating your Hebrew vs Gentile slaves, and how to properly enslave the offspring of your current slaves)

Jesus never spoke of slaves in any way that would suggest he had any problem with the practice whatsoever. And he was certainly in a position to make a statement about it.

The New Testament is also full of pro-slavery sentiment by his followers in: 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, Colossians, Ephesians, and probably others.

Sounds like a pretty dogshit philosopher if he can't even say slavery is bad while literally surrounded by the practice.