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Originally Posted by Azure
Yes I believe they were set up by God.
Trust me, I know exactly how weird they are. You mention one section out of hundreds that make absolutely no sense to me. But then again, I didn't live in that age, so I can't say much.
Slavery isn't exactly something that should surprise you. Only recently, looking at the age of mankind, was it outlawed.
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Slavery doesn't surprise me. The fact that people worship a god that explicitly condoned and set up rules for the practice (among many other reprehensible practices) is what surprises me.
I didn't live in 1860, but I can still say slavery was a bad thing then and it is now. I don't have to have been around in 500BC to know that volunteering your daughter for a gang-rape was as bad a thing then as it would be now, but it doesn't appear to be frowned upon in the book.