re: #6 b_sharp

I don’t think Glennie was talking about the colonial slavery that ended in the US in 1865. IMHO it was a (transparently) veiled reference to what many see as the start of statism in the US.

The problem for Gennie, is that despite his pseudo-familiarity with the stories in the Bible, he really doesn’t know how to construct an allegory.

Agreed.