Many conservatives claim their values come from the Bible. But how can your morality find its foundation on a book that condones human bondage — slavery.
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13 replies on “Slavery: How Can You Base Your Morality on the Bible Which Condones Human Bondage?”
I hear the poke at perverts being pretentious about virtue, but I don’t hear anyone being named. I don’t understand this.
Let’s say I imagined this could be in reference to me, though I’m really no one and I might as well could be invisible in my influence or authority. You can see that I use my real name here, and that anyone can do a search for me, though I personally know one guy I grew up with who had the same name. Anyway. I have been to jail a few times, and anyone could point these things out and the charges that were being leveled against me. Yet.. I have a clean record. I have a license to carry. How can it be so?
In each case, I have defended myself and could defend myself, but it would take a true friend, a neighbor with my best interests at heart, to spend a moment to ask me, Hey, Hugo. I see that your passionate about virtue, but there are these things which speak differently about you. Could you please explain these things, or tell us about your transformation and the journey that brought you from that to this. Like when I won custody of my son when he was 8, in a state where that is a near impossibility, here in California. A long tale in itself, and truly a difficult time when others fought dirty in attempts to discredit me to keep me from achieving this. How it nearly destroyed me.
So, friends. I guess what I’m saying is, if you are going to use strong words like that, be absolutely sure about the accusation being made, or it could blow up in your face.
As for the 40 lashes minus one. You don’t need justifications. As a father that practices corporal punishment I can tell you that I would willingly submit myself to this punishment over a 6 month imprisonment. If I deserved it. And even if I didn’t.
It would take time to heal, but it would not be half a year.
In the old law, those who are made slaves, or sold into bondage, are only so if they lack the means to make restitution for what they have been found to owe, by the law. In plain English, it is twice the amount of the worth of the object, if it is recovered. Four times the amount if the thief cannot reproduce what they have stolen. A fifth of the value of the object in question, plus the object being restored, IF THERE WAS A CONFESSION. This is called holy restitution in some parts of the law.
To zoe’s credit, the lash would only be applied if there was physical harm to another, as it is written: wound for wound, bruise for bruise, eye for eye, life for life.
It’s a hard law, yes. But it is more perfect than anything that has come after. Its just that people don’t know how to read it. And the new testament most certainly remarks on servants preparing food first for the master, then for himself, and even sending someone to the torturers to pay back a debt. Yes, Jesus’ own words in red letter. But he is justic, and mercy, incarnate.
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Proclaim liberty throughout the land! Jesus became our Kinsman Redeemer, as Boaz redeemed Ruth. He was born one of us and paid our debt.
Definitely a blessing. Thanks for your continued good works.
ZO – designate an interior room for you and your wife to use as Tornado shelter. Those suckers move way faster than you think.
Great job, as usual. Few people realize that the God of the Old Testament, far from condoning slavery, required His people to RELEASE all their slaves every 50 years. In fact, the earring was a sign of VOLUNTARY submission by the “slave” if he chose to return to his/her master after being released.
This is a BLESSING. Thank you. 🙏✝️💯
And, after having watched the Backstage episode that mentioned how this video might get blacklisted all I get for it is “Video not found.”
Good one, guys!
My Polish father was a full-blooded Slav, the preferred slaves of the Persians and, hence, the root word of slave. Vikings captured them and traded them as the primary source of their income. My Norwegian mother is related to Viking royalty. Mmmmm.
My Babci (Polish grandmother) left Poland for America early in the 20th century. One of the reasons her family put a teenager onto a boat for America by herself with some meager belongings is that Polish farms were fertile picking ground for Ottoman empire slave roundups. They would rather she live free in America than with them and be kidnapped into slavery in Turkey. That is only 100 years ago.
And, yet, we don’t beg for reparations.
Wouldn’t even consider it. The Payback for getting on the boat is this.
Babci had 2 sons who lost their father at 7 and 9. Both served in the army in Korea. My dad did GI bill when he got back and got a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA and spent 42 years with the same company retiring as a sr exec.
His brother came back and joined the FD retiring as a Captain.
And they were not considered white back then. they were dumb Pollocks.
Together they had 7 kids whom have all been successful, some got college degrees, some didn’t. All did well.
Those 7 kids had 14 more, all of whom are on their way to being successful. None are ridiculously wealthy though some are pretty close.
This was done not through privilege, but working diligently.
Unless one considers being an American a privilege, which we do.
Yes they are shameless but I am also encouraged at the same time by the renewed efforts to push this narrative as that means at some level these people understand that the majority of people are not buying it.
I find that I enjoy and get a lot out of these Virtue Signal episodes but that they sometimes don’t elicit a comment from me because you guys pretty well cover the topic. So I wanted to let you know they’re appreciated even if you’re not getting a lot of feedback on them.