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Originally Posted by Textcritic
There are two parts to this sort of reaction: The first is the choice to embrace what the Bible says on the subject on the grounds that the Bible says it. The second confirms that choice by way of personal experience or impulse. Biblical endorsements of slavery are so much easier to either ignore or to apologetically rationalize because it has become so culturally foreign. "Of course slavery is wrong—ergo, there must be some other explanation for the tolerance and promotion of slavery in the Bible."
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But you (or rather "they") don't follow that thought or rationalization through to the end. You can't just go "ergo there must be some other explanation", don't go and follow through on that investigation, give up and just wave your hands and say, yup - I figured it out, high five. Now I can continue to thump the parts I like and continue blindly discriminating with glee.
That's exactly the problem. You are still picking and choosing to ignore the crap you don't like.