General Discussions

[Thryleon]

I’m glad you did a bit of research. The link you provided stresses that slavery remains a problem today and needs to be confronted. In fact, the history of slavery leads the reader towards the article’s main purpose: “Join Us to Help Enslaved Haitian Children”.

Thats your inference.  I actually brought this up to show you and your mate PaulP that lining up the Christians for slavery is poppycock.

I assume you realise this and you’re walking away from the assertion you previously made:
By the way, I’m struggling to understand why you point out that slavery predates the “religious argument” (I’m assuming you mean the observation that the Bible doesn’t condemn slavery but instead attempts to make it ethical by setting out the obligations of slave owners). As you know, I noted that in doing so the Bible took the pragmatic course of allowing a practice that was widespread in those days to continue. In other words, it predated the Bible. So why are you suggesting the article undermines my point when I made that point myself?

  Slavery pre-dates Christianity.  The reason I state this, is to present the idea, that potentially observing scripture in Christianity regarding the morality of slavery, is simply lining up the usual suspects and targetting them through a prejudicial agenda.  You hate religion, ergo, you attack them at each opportunity.

Finally, if you read the scripture in Greek as it was intended, people will determine fairly quickly the juxtaposition of many of the arguments.  Religion was and has always been about observing different attitudes in society, and asking people to question the morality of their decision making.

Here’s a question for you. Is slavery always morally wrong or does it depend on circumstances?

I am unqualified to answer this question.  Philosophically speaking, you need to define what slavery is, to determine how wrong it is.  We are all slaves to society after all.  Is that wrong?