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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Again, a recognizance that slavery existed is not a condoning of slavery.
Telling slaves to treat their masters well, is not a statement saying that slavery is good, but rather merely a statement that tries to make the best of an existing situation.
The Luke parable is a story talking about the future using imagery that the people of Jesus' day would have understood. If you look at the whole context, it's pretty clear that Jesus isn't talking about slaves and masters at all.
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Here we have an issue that nobody, not one person, will disagree with -- that slavery is immoral. But it was clearly accepted in the bible. Nobody has argued that. If the Bible was written by god, which Christians generally appear to believe, then god accepted slavery.
You can hem and haw all night about how the greatest force in the universe was worried about a the social fabric of the day, but frankly, it's a lot of rich creamery butter.
I mean seriously -- god allowed this evil practice to go on, even wrote a few rules to govern it -- because he was concerned about the economy?
Come on now. You can't actually believe this.