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08-29-2005, 07:39 PM
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| Unethical rules in the bible... I once saw a post on another forum about things in the bible that are said that would be socially unacceptable in todays world. One that sticks out was that a man could buy slaves as long as they were from another country and a man could sell his daughter for a specific number of camels and sheep. Can anyone find any similar rules like these so I can shove them in the face of a fucking god damn Jehovah's Witness who is in my speech class and shut her the fuck up and make her go kill herself?
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08-29-2005, 07:55 PM
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| just tell her she's fat and that no matter how much you believe in the benevolent father figure of old, he doesn't exist. if the whole 'i believe it so it's true' worked out, i would have a fucking lightsaber and a girlfriend. then all you do is pull a gun out and say if god did exist she wouldn't be in such a shitty situation |
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08-29-2005, 07:55 PM
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| slavery wasn't as cruel back then as its commonly thought of today. a guy explained to it me once--suppose you ran out of money and couldn't feed your family, you could basically contract yourself to be a slave of someone for X # of years to pay off your debt. After your time is up, if you wanted, you had the option to work for your master or be free again. If you chose to stay a slave there would be some sort of ceremony and the master would nail the slaves earlobe to their household door to show the loyalty. A bondage slave is the one commonly thought of today, beatings and using whips ect. The guy who told me is a historian and honest so i have no reason not to believe him :x i think the camel/sheep thing was more like a dowry...suppose Ahab wants to marry Lisa, Ahab would offer X # of livestock to Lisa's father in order to receive is blessing or something like that. I think some native american tribes did the same thing too. Last edited by Gudrid : 08-29-2005 at 08:01 PM. |
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08-29-2005, 08:05 PM
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+16 Internets | Slavery varies by culture. What you described is closer to a serfdom, which was basically slavery but with more freedom. In most cultures, though, slaves were gathered from conquered people and there were many catagories of slaves. They used to have laws against certain types of treatments of slaves in certains civs, like Rome, but by and large you were at the whims of your master in many cases if they had alot of power and money. Alot of the fucked up Emperors of Rome didnt bat an eyelash at torturing their slaves just for the hell of it.
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08-29-2005, 08:09 PM
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| ... Found it! 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. There's a link to a couple on this forum I found. http://forum.muzikmedia.com/vbbs/showthread.php?t=102
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08-29-2005, 08:54 PM
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| [Insert post by a Christian stating why the Old Testament (and specifically the atrocious and embarassing book of Leviticus) was rendered obsolete by the New Testament] .... [Insert post by me laughing at people who put WAY too much stock into ancient texts] .... [Insert post by Eomer explaining that the "obsolete" book of Leviticus is also the same text used by modern homophobic Christians to persecute gay people] .... [Insert random other posts supporting one side or the other] .... [Eventually, insert a question posed by a non-Christian which blows the logic of dogmatic diety worship out of the water which goes unanswered (for lack of ability to do so) as the thread trails off into obscurity] .... [Wait 1 month] .... [Rinse] .... [Repeat]
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08-29-2005, 09:23 PM
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| That entire book contradicts itself. Thats what happens when too many hands are in the bookwriting cookie jar. Also if you bring up the shitty situation thing worthless was talking about, be ready for the god lets shitty things happen for a reason and who are we to argue, argument.
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08-29-2005, 09:35 PM
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| Speaking of contradictions titan_atlas.... "God works in mysterious ways" or "this is divine retribution for [whatever]" or "God's will be done" or "thank God I survived that hurricane when 100 people didn't".... Doesn't all of this fly in the face of prayer itself? Why bother praying if "God's will be done" anyway? I still wanna know why Pastor Greg in New Orleans didn't just pray real hard and dissipate Katrina with the power of the almighty holy ghost. For the same reason I wanna know why Tom Cruise (as a Scientology Operating Thetan Level 4) can't fly or manipulate the space-time-continum with his mind (such as is stated by Hubbard as possible at that level of human enlightenment). Funny how that works, ain't it?
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