#587 | Greg says God “sanitized” slavery by making it more kind and gentle than the slavery seen in neighboring cultures. How did God sanitize the killing of Amalekite infants by the Israelites? Was it more kind and more gentle than the way their pagan neighbors killed infants?
#566 | I see Old Testament slavery reframed by apologists as a sanitized slavery, and quite fine with God. Is there any universal principle that makes this sanitized form of slavery wrong for us today? How about if the culture and conditions reverted to those found in the Old Testament?
#358 | What was unique about the cognitive makeup of humans 3,000 years ago that made them incapable of immediately perceiving harm & pain to others found in slavery, forced polygamy, etc? Why would God need to “nudge” humanity’s insight & empathy along with gradual revelation?
#346 | Imagine devout slaves telling less-devout slaves that a desire to be free of the ever-absent master is to wickedly want to be your own master. Don’t Christians and Muslims do this very thing in claiming not believing in their God is wanting to be your own God?
#250 | Would you tell a slave his desire to be free is rebellious and he can have no real “freedom” until he submits to the will of Master (who, while never seen, allegedly left a to-do/to-not-do list) and any joy experienced apart from Master is “empty” and “meaningless”?
#189 | Any proposed omniscient God with an alleged cosmic plan intrinsically inscrutable to human minds we have no right to dismiss based on that God’s alleged actions such as child sacrifice and the promotion of slavery and rape. Is this right?
#145 | If allowing the owning humans as “property” in the OT style, and commanding the hacking to death infants is not indicative of an unrighteous God, what types of commandments would be? Is there any alleged divine commandment that we could immediately know is immoral?
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