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I Spit On Perfection
- May 16, 2006
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But we don't know how this was received or the positive/negative impacts it had on a slave and/or surrounding cultures. A hebrew slave has hebrew citizenship so freedom means joining their contemporaries with full participation and rights, something a foreign slave may not have and freedom to them may have a negative impact on their livelihood. We simply cannot comment on the impact of these systems because we don't have any detail that shows the impact and it's irresponsible to just superimpose what we think is slavery over this and then wag our finger. These laws are not for today, they are for ancient hebrews in an ancient world view so we need to adopt this world view if we are to understand it's systems.
If you just keep trying to say something wasn't as bad, you're still engaged in cognitive bias towards your preconception that the Bible cannot be immoral, which is dangerous thinking to never question something because of your sentiments towards it
The laws as they are described are potentially not the same as, say chattel slavery in the Atlantic slave trade, that doesn't mean there aren't similarities that make them both thoroughly immoral and dehumanizing. You're making pedantic nitpicks to defend your holy book instead of being honest and considering that maybe you shouldn't have an all or nothing approach to revelations that were supposedly progressive in nature, and thus shouldn't be seen as a package deal, as if the message absolutely requires concluding that there was a historical exodus of ancient Israelites or such, when evidence is slim to none on that in the first place
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