The Morality of Religion

If you’re going to quote scriptures for the purpose of making a point, perhaps you should attempt to understand them first.

I see why you chose a somewhat more obscure and lesser known version, because if you had used any mainstream version such as the NIV or KJV you’re point would be lost.

If that’s how you make your points, more power to you, but you’re only proving what everyone who tries to make a point or joke using actual scripture ends up proving, that you have change it and manipulate it because to use it in proper context, you know, to say it how it is, you’re joke and your point wouldn’t make sense. And that’s simply because the Bible, as it is, does make sense.

They were not punished because of the fact that they did not murder their slave, if their slave got back up after a day or two. The mentality was different back then, and God did not fail to warn a master about the way he treats his slave.

I know you Atheists love to take things out of context when making points, but despite our, as a people, greatest arrogant judgment, slavery back then was not necessarily bad, and slavery in of itself is not historically racist or inherently wrong for a nation that doesn’t pretend to believe in unalienable rights. In fact, before technological advancement, nations that had slaves did better and conquered better than those without. Hows that for survival of the fittest? You wouldn’t even have the right to spout off your opinion right now if it had not been for the success of past cultures who believed fully in owning slaves because they would never have gotten as powerful as they did and  their ideas would have been buried under others who also owned slaves.

You, as an Atheist, can appreciate the reality of the benefit that free labor gave to a nation as a whole, but you think, somehow, that if that logic does not escape God, then He must be morally compromised, which means He doesn’t exist. So, to you, either God is stupid, which would also mean that He didn’t exist, or God is immoral, which means God doesn’t exist. LOL, you Atheists, like liberals, you convince yourself of things so thoroughly, that no matter whether you’re right or wrong, you’re still right, LOLOLOLOL

The fact is, God gave us to live and dominate this world as we see fit, and to do it all with perfect reverence to God. However, we chose to disobey God, and because of that, variables came into play, variables of choice and decision.

What is wrong with paying a man to work for you, not in money, but in housing, clothing, and food. Who ever said that a man cannot treat his slave with the same respect as he would any man who worked for him. We look at slaves as not getting paid, but they are paid, just not in money, and often, due to the rules and laws of the time, had no option to leave, but instead to hope to earn their freedom. To a fair master, of which God demanded from His children, a slave is only a loyal servant paid in essentials for their work rather than money. Think about it, soldiers often got paid only in food, shelter, clothing, and weapons for long periods of time. Does that make them slaves, not really, because they’re still paid, just not in coins.

I’m not condoning slavery, it goes against everything we believe in, our ideals of equality and equal opportunity for all, but I am not going to be so arrogant as to presume that I know better than the nations of the past knew, that I know what slavery was all about and that I know if it was right or wrong for them to have slaves. I only know what’s right as far as it regards treating others and as it regards for what’s right for my nation.

I can say we were wrong because of the hypocrisy alone, we were wrong because we turned it into a racial issue, we were wrong because we did, at times, mistreat our slaves deplorably, just like we now, at times mistreat others deplorably. And even though we probably did not treat our slaves as badly as past cultures, like Rome, who, in some ways were better than us because they didn’t discriminate a specific race to slavery as we did, but we should never have had slaves to begin with, if we believed in unalienable rights and such. Fortunately, our founding fathers were smart enough to realize that tackling that issue would have probably completely destroyed our revolution. There were people who spoke out against the notion of legal slavery even back in the days of our revolution. They saw the hypocrisy, If memory serves, one of them may have even talked like an Atheist, or at least an agnostic.