• teuast@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    < nitpick >I could be operating with incomplete information, but I don’t think that was technically Jesus, I’m pretty sure that was in Exodus, which was much earlier.< / nitpick >

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      11 months ago

      Far more than just Exodus

      https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-slavery/

      And yeah my mistake, it was NT but not Jesus. Southern states used all of these verses to justify chattal slavery in the US.

      That being said, Jesus referenced slavery all of the time without condemning it (in fact I think he tells slave masters to treat their slaves well. That’s not ok). He used slaves and slavery as allegories in his parables, etc.

      Jesus himself said that he came to fulfill the old law and that not a word of it will change (in so many words). He explicitly supports Old Testament law, and therefore supports slavery and the rules surrounding beating them. If he didn’t, he could have very easily had said so.

      He tacitly approved of it. And I couldn’t care less about “the times”. Slavery is bad, period. No matter what/where it’s taking place.