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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (8191)5/4/1997 12:18:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 108807
 
Slavery was the way of the ancient world. The Hebrew bible has rules for the treatment of slaves, a good deal more humane than what other ancient civilizations practiced. I think there's a limit to their term of slavery, unlike what was practiced in the American South. I haven't read up on the subject lately, I did so some time back while reading Dabney's A Defense of Virginia and the South. Dabney was one of Stonewall Jackson's lieutenants as well as being a major Calvinist scholar. Greeks and Romans could kill their slaves, sexually abuse them, maim them, and so forth. Christianity had a major influence in ending slavery in the old Roman empire. Every man is the imago dei and has rights equal to everyone else. God is no respecter of men, and so forth. Slavery is tolerated, but I don't think you can say it is advocated, especially in the New Testament.
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