Slavery, in it's biblical form is about bad debts. You give an *interest free* loan, they default, you have lost out, and they're your slave. You let them go every seven years, and you sure as heck don't get to keep their children after. Further the bible says umpteen times not to do x, y or z to because you - read the israeli people, or the church(the new israel, it's spiritual inheritors) - were once slaves in Egypt. In the new testament it's true Paul never says a Christain can't holds slaves, but he does remind every slave owner that both master and slave have the same master in heaven, and also declares that he would prefer a slave be freed and be treated like a brother, if people either owe him or Christ for their salvation(or both). The slavery I assume most people are referring to looked nothing like the biblical view. It never uses words like abomination or put to death about people who refuse to take slaves, even if they're entitled. How is this the same? or similar?
2007-08-01 03:45:59 · 7 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
(1) I should have re-read Duetoronomy 15 before I made this post
(2) I meant that twice in the past week I've heard people - on national television - compare some Church's support of slavery with some Church's opposition to Gay Marraige. Not about whether Marraige is slavery.
2007-08-01 11:51:41 · update #1
Ive never heard Christians compare the two... and slaves in the bible were not let go every seven years.. head to history class my dear..
2007-08-01 03:55:25 · answer #1 · answered by pinkgoddess725 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Marriage is a form of slavery - yes. LOL! I agree.
But, Gay people are having their rights taken from them - do you get that? This effects their health and medical insurance. They have no say as to what happens to their partner if one of them gets ill and dies. It effects them starting families.
These people are progressive and wonderful are the emobodiement of what a true Christian is. Not these religious wacks who have hi-jacked the Republican party.
2007-08-01 04:15:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Christian Left? There is a new phrase. I like that. What are there, 14 members?
2007-08-01 05:39:31 · answer #3 · answered by John himself 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marriage, in legal practice, and by definition, is the ownership of one person by another. A person existing as the property of another person is slavery, regardless of gender.
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" -- Unk.
"Liberalism is the radical notion that people are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and one of them is freedom from ownership by other people." -- Me
2007-08-01 10:45:37 · answer #4 · answered by correrafan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because marraige is a form of slavery.
2007-08-01 03:49:36 · answer #5 · answered by niddlie diddle 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christian left, a contradiction in terms. To be a leftist is to renounce your belief in a God.
2007-08-08 17:47:18 · answer #6 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian left, "created in god's image to have dominion over all"?
2007-08-04 19:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by peezim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋