Leviticus 25:44-45
And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.
Discuss.
I wonder if this isn’t the real thinking behind the crackdown in illegal immigration. They don’t really mind having illegal immigrants, they just don’t want to have to pay them, or anyone else for that matter.
It is only the NeoFascist/GOP that is actively campaigning on eliminating actual monetary recompense for labor performed by the American worker. Hell, Mittens actively campaigned on how much he likes to fire people.
However, if the slaves that have become your property are revealed to be homosexual, you must have them stoned, then they may be freed.
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Funny that you should refer to Mr. Romney. I was thinking this must have been the part of the 47% speech that he managed to cover up.
Of course one can buy “slaves.”
When white men first came to the shores of the Columbia, they were captured and made slaves. They were even taught a slave language, Chinook, so that everyone would know these “Boston” men were slaves.
Slavery was a necessity before the capitalists invented contracts.
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Slavery was a necessity before the capitalists invented contracts.
Contracts became necessary because too many people couldn’t be enslaved otherwise. At least with a contract, both sides are bound to an agreement. At least in Theory.
I cannot make sense of the idea that people consider the Bible or the Qur’an or the Torah being a contract with any legal body. One cannot sue God if he fucks you over on a contract as so often seems to be the case.
I will not comment on the Roman Bible or the book of Mormon, there is nothing in them that is even purported to be form Me other than claims by Paul to have had a fanatasm or Joseph Smith to have discovered a provably false history of the world. John’s revelations are hardly of Me.
Of bibles, the ones that are closest to be of Me are:
The sutras of Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni. These are an effort at self discovery rather that n some claim to My revelation.
The Torah and the Vedas. While these claim some revelations from Me, like the sutras they are also an effort at understanding Me before science made that easy. Neither is a contract because >>I<< make no commitments.
QED by Feinman. Like the Torah, no contracts but, this time aided by science, huge revealtions about Me.
The Quran by ?? This is the most difficult of bibles because it is like the Vedas and the Torah, rooted in the time before science, but like the Roman Bible because it claims to have been given by Me or by an angel. Also, like the Roman book, this one asserts that I have made contracts, including rewards in an afterlife.
God on HorsesAss I am that I am and you are what you are. There is but one life so there can be no contracts by Me for another life.
Pretty sure this is part of the Republican platform.
This must be what people are referring to when they claim America was founded as a Christian nation.
@1 Actually, slaves were very expensive, and hardly any of the southern boys who died defending slavery could afford one. They fought for their generals’ prerogative to own slaves.
@3 Mittster probably thinks slaves who demanded to be fed were “takers.”
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That’s why we need a revolution. If we hang about half of the conservatives and half of the liberals the rest of them might leave Americans alone.
“from the nations that are around you”
Right from the beginning jews believed themselves better and entitled. They still do, which is why no jew should be holding any office.
@9… Stop telling the truth there!
Wow. That’s a nasty passage from the bible.