Originally Posted By: JetStar
Obama is about as religious as Ronald Reagan was. Most importantly, go to church for religious law, but don't infect my government with it.

How people put faith in a book that supports slavery SHOCKS and DISGUSTS me.

Lets not even start with the book of Morman.

Originally Posted By: (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom. If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him. If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master. But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.' If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever.


Originally Posted By: (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.


Originally Posted By: (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.


slavery was universal. there are serious problems with putting 21st century morality onto 15th century bc texts. what you are engaging in is "critical theory". this is an academic discipline dedicated to the destruction of western civilization by tearing down its art, literature, history, and works. you can only truly judge history in the context of its time.
the ancient greeks had slaves, abused and degraded their women, and loved warfare and violence. they also gave us mathematics, an alphabet, art, literature, and philosophy. shall we throw their wisdom away because they fall short of our 21st century morays?

also, why are you guys so hard on christians? our advanced civilization only happened naturally in christian countries. as policy, no christian nation has slaves (sudan, saudi arabia), degrades women ( iran sudan saudi arabia morroco tunisia kuwait etc) or glorifies war. ok maybe there is too much glory in war.

christian countries ended the slave trade, islamic ones invented it.

oh, and try to be more tolerant of other people

KGB Darkfall