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Bernd Lehnen wrote:
Evidence?
The only possible outcome in this case may be that the bible isn't an appropriate tool to rely on as a final source since it has been used to no avail in endless "pros and contras" not only between atheists and christians but also between "christian-hardcore-believers" themselves, depending on their view on slavery.
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Not so, if you are going to claim the Bible condones slavery and then say but you can't argue from the Bible that this is not true then this is just special pleading. Either the ethical code of the Bible condones slavery or it doesn't. Now this argument has been used against Christianity before and it is a serious claim, especially since our connotations of slavery are so closely linked to the African Slave Trade of the 18th Century and human trafficking today. To say that the Bible could be used to justify such heinous acts of inhumanity and cruelty is very serious and needs to be supported.