#slavery in the bible

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Why is it when I ask a Christian why they oppose same-sex marriage they say ‘because it says so in the bible’, but when I ask that same person why God allows people to own other human beings as slaves I get a twenty minute lecture about the social economics of the day, cultural and societal changes over time, and a breakdown on the nature of the history of language and how the certain meanings of words don't necessarily translate?”

Xians pick and choose their morals because they know their bible is complete and utter bullshit too.

[atheostic]

It's truly chilling how many Christians call into atheist shows to defend slavery as being moral.

Atheist Experience alone has a playlist of a small sample of their slavery-related calls and it's 55 callers long.

That's 55 modern people who think slavery is okay because the Bible said so.

The fact that there are so many people who still think slavery is okay is horrifying.

Note: Those 55 calls are NOT all the slavery calls they've received over the past 20+ years of the show. In fact, they've received so many that some hosts refuse to answer calls on the topic anymore because they're so tired of having to listen to people defend slavery.

[myliftingjournal]

Who's Your Master?

Who’s Your Master?

Romans 6:1-14: Shall we go on sinning so that Grace may increase? (“Hayl no!”) We’re the ones who have died to sin; how then can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the…

[a-typical]

The slaves had drummed into them, from plantation and pulpit alike, from courthouse and statehouse, the notion that they were hereditary inferiors, that God intended them for their misery. The Holy Bible, as countless passages confirmed, condoned slavery. In these ways the 'peculiar institution' maintained itself despite its monstrous nature - something even its practitioners must have glimpsed.

There was a most revealing rule: slaves were to remain illiterate. In the antebellum South, whites who taught a slave to read were severely punished. "[To] make a contented slave," Bailey later wrote, "it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason." This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society.

Bailey was sent to work for Capt Hugh Auld and his wife, Sophia, moving from plantation to urban bustle, from field work to housework. In this new environment, he came every day upon letters, books and people who could read. He discovered what he called 'this mystery' of reading: there was a connection between the letters on the page and the movement of the reader's lips, a nearly one-to-one correlation between the black squiggles and the sounds uttered.

Surreptitiously, he studied from young Tommy Auld's Webster's Spelling Book. He memorized the letters of the alphabet. He tried to understand the sounds they stood for. Eventually, he asked Sophia Auld to help him learn. Impressed with the intelligence and dedication of the boy, and perhaps ignorant of the prohibitions, she complied.

By the time Frederick was spelling words of three and four letters, Captain Auld discovered what was going on. Furious, he ordered Sophia to stop.

But Auld had revealed to Bailey the great secret: 'I now understood ... the white man's power to enslave the black man. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.'

Without further help from the now reticent and intimidated Sophia Auld, Frederick found ways to continue learning how to read... Then he began teaching his fellow slaves: 'Their minds had been starved . . . They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul.'

With his knowledge of reading playing a key role in his escape, Bailey fled to New England, where slavery was illegal and black people were free. He changed his name to Frederick Douglass (after a character in Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake), eluded the bounty hunters who tracked down escaped slaves, and became one of the greatest orators, writers and political leaders in American history. All his life, he understood that literacy had been the way out.

— The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (1996)

[my-midlife-crisis]

[gxlden-angels]

LMAO I love these two's growth they nailed the Bible Belt Simulator™️

[captainjonnitkessler]

People will dismiss the importance of interpreting the Constitution because “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 200 years ago”

But bring up one passage from a holy book that hasn’t aged well and people will trip all over themselves to say “well, actually, in this translation, and if you use this interpretation, and if you listen to this crackpot theory that no theologian takes seriously but that I’m going to present as established and widely accepted, then -” instead of just following through on “maybe we shouldn’t care what a bunch of racist sexist slaveowners would have thought 2000 years ago”

[lentendays]

Something something Jacob and Esau parallels.

In biblical times Jacob, Abraham's grandson, became known as "Israel" through Years Of Redemption but was for the first part of his life kind of a tool. He was born clinging to his twin brother Esau's heel, much like baby AFO is grabbing onto Yoichi here. (Not sure who's older since AFO is called "older brother" but Yoichi literally means "First son". If we take the First Son interpretation, the parallels with Esau continue.) For that reason he was named Jacob, which means "Heel" or "may God protect" OR "ASSAILANT".

Like AFO sucking the life out of Yoichi and his mother, Jacob grew up jealous of Esau and wanted to take all that he had - and he did. Through tricking Esau, he got Esau's birthright. And by tricking his aging, blind dad, he got his dad's blessing for the firstborn, which his dad was not able to regive to Esau when he asked. Both the most important things a firstborn child could have in those times.

Idk where this is going but it's a cool parallel.

[durn3h]

One of the most interesting things about religion to me is that so many people don’t even see the mental gymnastics they are doing to try and shape the biblical texts into a framework that is acceptable in the modern day and it comes out looking like something that none of the authors would have approved of.

[originalleftist]

You know those Bibles that Trump was blasphemously selling to make himself a quick buck? The ones that came packaged with the Constitution, because fuck the separation of Church and State? Turns out that the Trump Bible's version of the Constitution OMITS a number of passages. Including the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

(Screenshot taken off Spoutible.com)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"What a deliciously evil God! Mass murders, the endorsing of slavery. I"d say, you wn't find that in moral books like Humpy Dumpty, or Three Little Pigs."

[renegaderider]

How to LAWFULLY BEAT a SLAVE,,,,it"s in the BIBLE

The so-called "god" and morality

[the-hype-dragon]

ah I'm glad to see other Christians waking up to how destructive hardcore gender complementarianism can be

[ausetkmt]

More INCORRECT White Interpretations of Black Culture

they again admit that they are not initiatied and in their opinion there is no requirement to be a part of an ancestral Religion, yet this is all about Ancestors Working For You - so NO,

Stop This and Learn about your Ancestors if you were not born with African ancestors, because your ancestors will be waiting for you wherever you may choose to worship them. Just Leave ATR Out of it.

[atheostic]

Bible Verses You Don't Hear About

"You may buy men and women slaves from other nations around you. Also you may buy children as slaves. These children must come from the families of foreigners living in your land. These child slaves will belong to you. You may even pass these foreign slaves on to your children after you die. You can make them slaves forever. But you must not rule cruelly over your own brothers, the Israelites.

(Leviticus 25:44-46)

But God's anti-slavery, y'all!

[alostwanderernotfound]

On Securing Freedom of the Union

Summary: Jesus then went on to working in the equivalent of consulting roles, charity work, intelligence, national security, & military roles to aid in various nations around the world & fend off apocalyptic prophecies God had showed to him many years ago. Jesus’s teachings seemed unwelcome by many Christians, so he moved on from it.

Serving in the army, navy, national guard, Air Force, marines, multiple Seal Teams, marines, rangers, NATO, military police, many more sports & various military commander posts internationally- he went wherever God & the people asked for their assistance.

During the American Revolution his fellow soldiers hung up a “George Washington is A Coward Sign” on a building after we had won. They also replaced the American flag he hung up after they won with a British one, to imply he was a traitor. They did not know I was spending my time as a spy overseas & actually signed the document in England that won the war & secured our independence & freedom. I held back tears as I saw the sign fall. It was unsafe to speak of in the moment, for all of us. I had served as George Washington the Military Commander & spy, as Thomas Jefferson overnight to let the daytime President rest & do the Louisiana purchase, & rose to be Lincoln & work to win the Civil war when the slavery bell tolled once more. The angels switched back and forth with another to aid anywhere they could. Jesus tended to stay in positions of low spotlight for that is how he so preferred it.

God said his life was to be of suffering and he believed it. Time and time again- he believed it.

“God has done nothing for me” is a common belief. How different all our lives would be if it were so true.