08-27-2004, 09:38 PM
It always takes me a couple days to fully digest the Gospel According to Pete. ;)
That's a social and moral point of view. At different times, different societies had differing forms of slavery and everybody in those societies accepted it and would have laughed at you for thinking otherwise.
True. I've taken enough Greek and Roman history classes to know that their societies depended on slavery. (Did you know that a rudimentary steam engine was created during Roman times but was shunned and eventually forgotten because of the cheap and readily available slave labor?)
Hell, there are even rules and regulations for the treatment of slaves in the Bible and yet it was various Christian groups (the Quakers come to mind) who were the most outspoken and influential in the abolitionist movement.
The Bible (and the Five Books) also advocate stoning your diobedient children in Leviticus, as well as people who don't keep the Sabbath holy by not working. Plus, in the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abram manages to pacify the Sodomites wanting to sodomize Lot (and now you know where that word comes from) by giving the ravenous crowd Lot's daugters! So, the Bible advocates rape to save your relatives from homosexuality.
It is this kind of religious BULL#$%& I want out of our government.
I believe that people can do whatever the hell they want to as long as their actions 1) contribute to the common good and 2) don't harm anyone else without their consent. A hyperactive and detrimental sect of an otherwise peacable religion is bound to cause trouble. Hell, look at what the Pharisees did to us Jews!
(And y'all get to stew on that for a while. Dinner's ready. :P)
That's a social and moral point of view. At different times, different societies had differing forms of slavery and everybody in those societies accepted it and would have laughed at you for thinking otherwise.
True. I've taken enough Greek and Roman history classes to know that their societies depended on slavery. (Did you know that a rudimentary steam engine was created during Roman times but was shunned and eventually forgotten because of the cheap and readily available slave labor?)
Hell, there are even rules and regulations for the treatment of slaves in the Bible and yet it was various Christian groups (the Quakers come to mind) who were the most outspoken and influential in the abolitionist movement.
The Bible (and the Five Books) also advocate stoning your diobedient children in Leviticus, as well as people who don't keep the Sabbath holy by not working. Plus, in the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abram manages to pacify the Sodomites wanting to sodomize Lot (and now you know where that word comes from) by giving the ravenous crowd Lot's daugters! So, the Bible advocates rape to save your relatives from homosexuality.
It is this kind of religious BULL#$%& I want out of our government.
I believe that people can do whatever the hell they want to as long as their actions 1) contribute to the common good and 2) don't harm anyone else without their consent. A hyperactive and detrimental sect of an otherwise peacable religion is bound to cause trouble. Hell, look at what the Pharisees did to us Jews!
(And y'all get to stew on that for a while. Dinner's ready. :P)
UPDATE: Spamblaster.