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Jim DeMint Spells It Out: Fundamentalist Christianity Required to Be a Conservative

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DaddyG11/10/2010 11:48:57 am PST

re: #121 calochortus

Putting those who kidnap into slavery to death didn’t seem merely regulatory to me?!

Don’t forget the context of the Bible as a text for an ancient nomadic and agrarian society that already practiced indentured servitude and slavery.

Others have already explained the difference between the Bible’s definition and more modern race based slavery.

If you are going to argue someone’s beliefs at least represent them correctly. I have yet to meet in real life one Christian who defends race based slavery using the Bible and even on the web those kooks are few and far between. Using slavery to condemn the Bible is approaching argument from extremes or even a straw man.