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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He could have also told people it's not ok to own slaves.

But apparently that was just a step too far.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure jews didn't own slaves back then. It's a given that the roman enslavers are evil.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You could not be more incorrect. The Bible is undeniably, explicitly pro-slavery. And Hebrews owned slaves (both Gentile slaves, and Hebrew slaves. Their own people. Classy).

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+21&version=ESV

20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

They Old Testament were rules for the Hebrews, and in it there are rules for how to treat your Hebrew slaves. Huh.

“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

-Exodus 21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_slavery

And the New Testament is no better. John tells slaves to obey their masters. And Jesus, despite being absolutely steeped in slave culture, never once had anything negative to say about it. Pretty damning. Tacit approval by omission, if you ask me.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Jews owned slaves back then; they weren't morally superior to the Romans in any way.