re: #138 LudwigVanQuixote

I do know context is important, and about the “do not murder” commandment. But I don’t see how context could possibly turn the two quotes I gave into anything but an endorsement of permanent servitude with the consent at some point of the individual involved. As I noted above, we are not, in modern societies permitted to sell ourselves, or our family members into servitude.

I know that society was different back then and these may have been very practical solutions at the time. I know that not everyone in the Christian or (particularly) Jewish faiths takes the bible as the inerrant word of God, but for those who do, the slavery/servitude argument seems as good as any to point out that there could be some problems with a return to the social system of a couple millennia ago. And that was my point-not that people today support slavery or that any particular faith is evil.