How could any christian nation justify slavery?

t. a Christian theologian with a wealth of sources at his disposal

God lead Moses and the Israelites away from slavery.

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Incorrect. Jesus says to be a servant, not to be a slave but an act of devotion and selflessness towards other.

What would've happened to slavery if the South had been allowed to secede?

Exodus 21 :^)
If you can justify things with a bible verse or two, then so can we.

on the surface the mark of cain
deep down it was for the $$$$$

I have a us history mid term tmr so fuck me daddy

Blacks weren't really considered to be equal to whites evolutionarily; this was a reconciliation with Christianity's anti-slavery message.

During the Atlantic slave trade it was illegal to enslave other Christians, but since it was economically necessary, in their eyes, they justified it by telling people blacks were inferior and slavery was the best option for them.

The mark of Caine

Tons of bad shit has been sanctioned by religion. The Bible very specifically endorses slavery. The church's doctrine of discovery sanctioned colonialism.

Looking back on it with today's morals and chastising is pretty ignorant though. It's not like they had some inner conflict about it, they could define right and wrong on their terms just as we do today.

Well you don't feel bad for letting a chicken live in a cage do you?

Societas Christiana, read it up.

Not a single verse in the either new or old testament condemns slavery. Old one has specific rules for it and all patriarchs and most prophets owned slaves, including sex slaves. In the new testament Jesus doesn't mention slavery even once and Paul commands slaves to obey their masters. It's abolition of slavery that is hard to justyfy in biblical context.

they can't jesus said everybody is equal

the only reason slavery stopped in america was because of capitalism

gotquestions.org/Bible-slavery.html

Question: "Does the Bible condone slavery?"

Answer: There is a tendency to look at slavery as something of the past. But it is estimated that there are today over 27 million people in the world who are subject to slavery: forced labor, sex trade, inheritable property, etc. As those who have been redeemed from the slavery of sin, followers of Jesus Christ should be the foremost champions of ending human slavery in the world today. The question arises, though, why does the Bible not speak out strongly against slavery? Why does the Bible, in fact, seem to support the practice of human slavery?

The Bible does not specifically condemn the practice of slavery. It gives instructions on how slaves should be treated (Deuteronomy 15:12-15; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1), but does not outlaw slavery altogether. Many see this as the Bible condoning all forms of slavery. What many fail to understand is that slavery in biblical times was very different from the slavery that was practiced in the past few centuries in many parts of the world. The slavery in the Bible was not based exclusively on race. People were not enslaved because of their nationality or the color of their skin. In Bible times, slavery was based more on economics; it was a matter of social status. People sold themselves as slaves when they could not pay their debts or provide for their families. In New Testament times, sometimes doctors, lawyers, and even politicians were slaves of someone else. Some people actually chose to be slaves so as to have all their needs provided for by their masters.

The slavery of the past few centuries was often based exclusively on skin color. In the United States, many black people were considered slaves because of their nationality; many slave owners truly believed black people to be inferior human beings. The Bible condemns race-based slavery in that it teaches that all men are created by God and made in His image (Genesis 1:27). At the same time, the Old Testament did allow for economic-based slavery and regulated it. The key issue is that the slavery the Bible allowed for in no way resembled the racial slavery that plagued our world in the past few centuries.

In addition, both the Old and New Testaments condemn the practice of “man-stealing,” which is what happened in Africa in the 19th century. Africans were rounded up by slave-hunters, who sold them to slave-traders, who brought them to the New World to work on plantations and farms. This practice is abhorrent to God. In fact, the penalty for such a crime in the Mosaic Law was death: “Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death” (Exodus 21:16). Similarly, in the New Testament, slave-traders are listed among those who are “ungodly and sinful” and are in the same category as those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, adulterers and perverts, and liars and perjurers (1 Timothy 1:8–10).

Another crucial point is that the purpose of the Bible is to point the way to salvation, not to reform society. The Bible often approaches issues from the inside out. If a person experiences the love, mercy, and grace of God by receiving His salvation, God will reform his soul, changing the way he thinks and acts. A person who has experienced God’s gift of salvation and freedom from the slavery of sin, as God reforms his soul, will realize that enslaving another human being is wrong. He will see, with Paul, that a slave can be “a brother in the Lord” (Philemon 1:16). A person who has truly experienced God’s grace will in turn be gracious towards others. That would be the Bible’s prescription for ending slavery.

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Too bad he couldn't get salvation for your fatal amounts of autism

Mechanization of agriculture and the Boll weevil infestation that ravaged the Southern cotton industry in the early 20th Century would've killed it.

>evolution allowed them to reconcile with the bible when it fit their agenda

really makes u think

This, desu. There's a big difference between Biblical-age slavery and the chattel slavery we're more used to deeing in the history books.

>How could any christian nation justify slavery?

"Slaves, obey your masters." - New Testament

not that hard, cuck

By pulling out select passages and interpreting meanings in ways that support their goals?

Yes, it makes them hypocrites. They didn't want to be hypocrites, so they came up with a weird tangle of ideas that helped them sell the idea.

Add in some generational inertia and enough greed to overcome most men's morals and you've got a recipe for this sort of shit.

The new testament allow slavery, and urge the slaves to be obedient and the masters to be kind to their slaves.

We all are slaves to God, anyway. Nothing to justify here.

>Jesus said everybody is equal
>citation needed

Just look at the average negro.

>citation needed

You are all equal, all societies should implement a minimum wage and a welfare system.

New Testament of Cultural Marxism, Gospel according to Marx, chapter 11, verse 15

We must fight patriarchy and the evil white men, they're the incarnation of Satan on Earth !

New Testament of Cultural Marxism, Gospel according to Hillary, chapter 2, verse 59

Women and muslims should get free money.

New Testament of Cultural Marxism, Epistle of Trudeau to the Canadians, chapter 1, verse 22

>Slavery is only bad when you enslave black people