slavery in the Bible was not what is considered slavery in these modern times. It wasn't and issue of race but more of a social status-more likely if you worked for another person rather than owning your own business you were a slave
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What bullshit; of course it wasn't. This ass-backward definition of slavery would invalidate most of the biblical laws governing slavery, such as not being allowed to keep a fellow Hebrew as a slave, since hiring your fellows to work for you would constitute enslaving them.
Sometimes it amazes me the dumb, lame, plain-badly-thought-out excuses you fundies come up with to excuse biblical and religious atrocities!
If you were a slave in biblical times, another human being owned you and had the power of life and death over you, provided you didn't die within a day or so as a result of the last beating you were given.
Q.E.D.
Well, if you were in the wrong part of town at the wrong time of night, you might be a slave the next morning.
What? Laws against kidnapping? Are you serious?
Modern-day slavery is, working your tuchus off just to slow your descent into debt.
Well, those wre the days! Sure, you couldn't get drunk worth a shit off that fermented yet non-alcoholic grape juice that they called "wine", but if you were a slave, you were actually free , even though someone owned you.
-pb
Burn all history textbooks you come into contact with.
And you too can end up like rachellengland someday.
Slavery is slavery. It's never been and never will be anything but repulsive and degrading.
Well, you know that most businesses have a human resources department... [/sarcasm]
There really wasn't a difference. Slaves were owned by other people, not paid servants. Slaves didn't get a say in what they did, unless they wanted to die (and even then, the Israeli's had laws stating they had to linger a few days before death or the master had to sacrifice a goat or something [is too lazy to look it up right now]). Next time read your book before expounding on what you want it to say.
Yeah, you know, if you ignore the whole being sold like animals thing, and the beatings if the master wasn't satisfied with your work, and being forced to work for said master, whether you liked it or no (God help you if you were female, too...)
Other than that, that's EXACTLY what it was like.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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