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>The Bible and Quran also describe slavery without condemning it as fundamentally evil. The ten commandments were delivered to a band of freed slaves. "Thou sh

• krapp 5y ago
  And those freed slaves themselves practiced slavery, and capturing female sex-slaves in warfare was explicitly permitted by Moses. The Old Testament also contains numerous laws and customs about the treatment and adjudication of slaves, no outright condemnation. And the New Testament, Paul tells slaves in Ephesians to be loyal to their masters, and in Colossians, for slave masters to treat their slaves fairly. 1 Peter 2:18 even tells slaves to obey their masters when they're abusive. Neither Jews nor Christians saw slavery as fundamentally evil, rather they saw the relationship of master to slave as simply a reflection of humanity's relationship to God. Man was made in the image of God, and man was to God as a slave was to their master - something metaphorically touched upon numerous times in the New Testament. The ethics of the Bible are a product of the time and culture in which any part of it was devised, so it not being explicitly anti-slavery isn't surprising. Concepts like universal human equality (Kings and nobles not having divine right) and slavery being objectively evil are progressive, post-Biblical ideals.
  • zozbot234 5y ago
    > And those freed slaves themselves practiced slavery Then again, freed Black slaves ended up practicing slavery of other Blacks in Liberia, of all places. Truly, there's nothing new under the sun.