In response to: "The bible clearly condones slavery in the OT. So wouldn't condemning it in our modern age be a betrayal of traditional bible values?"]
i'm ok with indentured servitude, provided the slaves are provided with survival necessities and an eventual alternative career plan, such as the ownership of 7 acres farmable land after period of 3 yrs slavery (ect.), and think this should be legal.
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You, Kalith, are a fucktard.
Advocating slavery, Jesus would be proud of you.
It's good that you're okay with it. Slavery, I mean. Really.
So would you be okay with spending a large part of the next decade or so of your life as an unwilling slave to a master who has the power of life, death and pain over you, and is ready to inflict all of those things on you if you disobey, protest or try to escape? What about your siblings? Parents? Friends?
Fortunately for you, most of the rest of the world isn't as okay with it as you are.
i'm ok with indentured servitude, provided the slaves are provided with survival necessities and an eventual alternative career plan, such as the ownership of 7 acres farmable land after period of 3 yrs slavery (ect.), and think this should be legal as long as I'd never have to be a slave myself ."
Fixed it for you.
While John is right, indentured servitude is not exactly the same thing as slavery, Kalith clearly has no idea what the difference is. The Bible, actually, does mention the two and regulates each slightly differently.
It is also apparent Kalith has no idea how modern agriculture works. Hell, he doesn't even have any idea how ancient agriculture works. Seven acres of land is a pittance, it's barely enough space to put a house up and have a "large garden" (certainly nothing like an actual farm) that would be good for little more than subsistence farming, certainly not as a profitable career. Also, he hasn't clearly thought out the problem of where this land is going to come from - pretty much all of the land in our country is either already owned or is managed by state/federal authorities.
But then again - how many fundies really think anything through, ever?
With proper supervision (to prevent abuse) using labor as an alternative to currency or bartering is a reasonable idea. Agree with it or not, it may work or not, but it's hardly as crazy as people are making it sound.
You can be my slave - I make sure you won't live long enough to get the however many acres of land, besides, who actually wants to be a farmer? It's a lot of work, I mean - A LOT!!!!! I grew up on a farm!
Technically, s/he has a point. There does exist African slavery which is different from the Western concept of slavery- that is, complete, total control.
African slavery is like...a butler-ish thing. It's much more altruistic, and much lenient towards the "slaves" than Southern farmers pre-Civil War period.
However, the problem of slavery comes in when the "masters" of the slaves become corrupted and seduced by the power they have.
Mling:
We already have that system implemented for the last few thousand years. We only made sure that someone who couldn't find a baker who needed work done is still able to get his bread, someone who can't find a water purifier gets clean water and that someone who can't find a teacher who needs work done can still learn after working. We call it money. It's there for a reason.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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