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Itinerant Lurker
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Message 1 of 82 (649666)
01-24-2012 10:04 PM


Having entered into a discussion to dispel the myth that the OT only condones benevolent "debt-slavery" on a Christian forum I was shocked to encounter the below sentiments. Honestly, I really didn't think these types of views really existed anymore - the amount of intentional ignorance involved is simply astounding.
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Message 2 of 82 (649668)
01-24-2012 10:20 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Itinerant Lurker
01-24-2012 10:04 PM


Religious belief and other nonsense
On another website I had someone tell me, "It is not wrong to own a slave."
Apparently if it was OK with the bible, it was OK with him.
Sorry, this is absolute nonsense but it is not as rare as one might hope.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

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Taz
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Message 3 of 82 (649669)
01-24-2012 10:37 PM


Poe's Law comes to mind. I sometimes honestly can't tell if these people are serious or parodying.
Added by edit.
You don't have to go far to see examples of this. Our very own buz continues to insist that the whities were doing the blackies a favor by kidnapping them from Africa, cramp them onto overcrowded ships, dumping half of them into the sea on their way to North America, and sell them off into American slave markets. Why? Because at least they were introduced to christ.
Don't believe me? Just ask buz himself.
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Message 4 of 82 (649679)
01-25-2012 2:55 AM
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01-24-2012 10:37 PM


Because at least they were introduced to christ.
Yea and everyone knows the only way a black person can get to Heaven is if he is a slave, the mark of Cain is evident on them.

Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand

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Larni
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Message 5 of 82 (649680)
01-25-2012 3:10 AM


Christian morality: priceless.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation
-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286
Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.
-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134

  
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Message 6 of 82 (649684)
01-25-2012 4:15 AM


Why so surprising?
Given a text that describes beating a slave so that he does not die in the same evening as the beating is administered as being lawful, and coupling that with a belief that the Torah is literally and inerrantly the Word of God as dictated to Moses, isn't it quite consistent that owning slaves might not be a sin.
I'm way over my Buzsaw comment quota for the year. Not going there. Oops, perhaps I just did...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)

  
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Message 7 of 82 (649698)
01-25-2012 7:06 AM


This is an oldie, but I enjoy reading it every so often.
Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
October 2002
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your devoted fan,
Jim
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Message 8 of 82 (649706)
01-25-2012 8:23 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Itinerant Lurker
01-24-2012 10:04 PM


That board layout looks a bit like LandoverBaptist. That's not the website where you are "discussing" this, are you?

Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion. Joseph Campbell

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Larni
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Message 9 of 82 (649708)
01-25-2012 8:45 AM
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01-25-2012 8:23 AM


I honestly could not tell it that site was real or not, at first.

The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer.
-Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53
The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation
-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286
Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.
-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134

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Itinerant Lurker
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Message 10 of 82 (649847)
01-25-2012 10:06 PM
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01-25-2012 8:23 AM


Ha, no. It was over on ourchristianforum.org
Here's the thread from the beginning (if you're interested):
http://www.ourchristianforum.org/index.php?topic=1233.0
With a particularly outlandish post claiming the OT actually safeguards slave's "inalienable rights" that got me into the discussion here:
http://www.ourchristianforum.org/index.php?topic=1233.msg...
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Message 11 of 82 (654765)
03-03-2012 9:51 PM


Amendment of Ridiculous
Apparently I haven't seen it all. In discussing the reasons why the south seceded from the Union (thanks, by the way, to the participants of the "Why the South Seceded" thread here), I was informed that slaves didn't actually have their rights taken away because rights are inherent. Therefore, the south should have been left alone to eventually figure out that slavery was wrong or until the slaves cared enough to do something about it. I kid you not.
Here's where I completely lose my shit.
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Message 12 of 82 (654767)
03-03-2012 11:20 PM
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03-03-2012 9:51 PM


Re: Amendment of Ridiculous
My stepdaughter moved to texas to get to college, and one thing Texas does is insist people take the History of Texas classes, no matter what major.
She learned down there that blacks actually liked being slaves. Imagine that.
Or, at least that is was said in class by the teacher.

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Message 13 of 82 (654773)
03-04-2012 4:54 AM
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03-03-2012 11:20 PM


Re: Amendment of Ridiculous
May I ask which part? Or, if willing to divulge, which college in Texas?
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Message 14 of 82 (654775)
03-04-2012 6:39 AM


Repugnant!
I'm finding this thread extremely disturbing. That there are people today who "can't say that owning a slave is a sin" and justfy that by quoting the bible makes me sick to my stomach!
We're already familiar with biblical literalists and the mental contortions they have to go through, such as denying science in just about every form it exists, or using a particular interpetation for one part of the bible then contradicting that interpretation for another part, or even outright "lying for Jeebus".
However, I'm shocked that, in order to maintain their inerrantist position, they are prepared to go as far as this! It's views like these that demonstrate the utter idiocy of claims of biblical inerrancy. Where do we find in the teachings of Jesus that it's OK to own and beat slaves? We don't. If the Gospels are inerrant and the OT is inerrant, then, Houston, we have a problem. We're left with the idea that God is capricious, doesn't remember what he's said previously, or does remember and doesn't give two hoots and expects his "children" to ever, ever break any of his rules, even when those rules are subject to change on a whim. And if, by following version 1 of His rules we are breaking a later version that we didn't know about, He'll make sure we're punished for all eternity.
The fact that this view of happy slaves, pleased to be slaves, is actually taught, as ramoss posted, is awful! How on earth can a college allow this to be taught? More to the point, how on earth can any right-thinking person, Christian, Jew, Atheist, Agnostic or any other flavor of religion you care to mention, know that this is being taught and do nothing about it?
All of us, everyone, has to expose this sort of repugnant belief for what it is.

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Message 15 of 82 (654781)
03-04-2012 8:31 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Taz
01-24-2012 10:37 PM


PRESSED WRONG BUTTON. STAY TUNED
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BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
Someone wisely said something ;ike, "Before fooling with a fool, make sure the fool is a fool."

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