Centuries of progress

[Cartoonist]

Leviticus 25:44-46

44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.


meanwhile, the religious stand still

Rick Santorum: “A child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

John Hubbard: “The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise."

Art Robinson: “The negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe.”

Loy Mauch: "If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861?"

[rug]

1. Your point is . . . . what? Religious people support slavery?

[Cartoonist]

2. You're catching on

Still waiting for you or Frank to condemn Leviticus.

[rug]

3. If that's your point, it's an idiotic one.

Still waiting for one of you to acknowledge anti-Catholic bigotry.

[Cartoonist]

4. I gave you a chance

but you let Leviticus slide.

Criticizing the Catholic church is not bigotry, it's calling Hate for what it is.

[rug]

5. LOL!

"you let Leviticus slide"



The world is doomed to 2,000 more years of slavery!

[Cartoonist]

7. How can you laugh?

I often see slaves standing on street corners selling strawberries. I guess you think that's funny.

[rug]

9. Do tell. Are you talking about the Moonies?

When did they switch to strawberries?

[Cartoonist]

10. try to keep up to date

Immigrants trying to pay their masters for bringing them to America. It gets hot under the sun. Keep laughing in the shade.

[rug]

11. Ah. Are their masters, priests, imams or rabbis?

[Cartoonist]

12. fellow Catholics

keep laughing

[rug]

13. I

That calls for outright mockery, not laughter.

So, you've encountered Catholics enslaved by other Catholics selling strawberries on street corners?

[Cartoonist]

14. Yes

It's well documented.

[rug]

16. If you didn't call the police you're complicit.

[Cartoonist]

19. The police see them too

They probably harrass them.

[rug]

20. Neither did you.

[MineralMan]

6. Well, they have done in the past, certainly.

Perhaps some still do. Fortunately, slavery is illegal in most developed countries. Humanism finally eradicated it, regardless of the lingering sentiments of some. It still exists, but not in very many places.

However, some religious people in the United States supported it for quite some time, until they were forced to abandon the practice in the middle of the 19th century. That went down poorly in some parts of this country, and some still wish for it to still be an option.

It's incorrect to say that religions did not support slavery. Obviously, that is not true. The verses being quoted from the Bible are evidence of it. That is too bad, of course, but we humans have not always been enlightened in such matters. We're doing better about that now, although there are still remnants of such views in evidence.

So, yes, religious people have supported slavery, historically, and longer than they have not supported it. That cannot be denied.

[rug]

8. "Richard Dawkins expresses disbelief over slave owner ancestor story"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/19/richard-dawkins-disbelief-slave-trade-ancestor

That cannot be denied.

I bet his ancestor was a Christian. At least he provided a lovely estate for his descendants.

[MineralMan]

18. So what?

Dawkins no more represents atheist than you represent Christians.

[Lordquinton]

21. "I bet his ancestor was a Christian. At least he provided a lovely estate for his descendants. "

Thanks for the proof you didn't read the article.

[Cartoonist]

15. Dawkins

Whenever the king of deflection has no moral argument to stand on, he trots out Dawkins.

[rug]

17. Whenever someone says the sky is blue you croak out pedophilia!

Excuse me, today it's enslaved Catholics selling strawberries.

[AtheistCrusader]

22. Hey look, your church has a wiki page.

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

Noteworthy, apparently.

[rug]

24. So do you.

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

Actually, skimming, you appear to have quite a few.

[Iggo]

23. First!