• overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The New Testament absolutely says that it’s ok to keep slaves and provides guidelines for how matters should treat their slaves and how slave should behave. This is mostly within the context of Roman society at the time.

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      22 days ago

      Pretty sure the stuff you’re thinking about is yet another awful thing that Paul said.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      And Roman slavery at the time was much more like indentured servitude than what we generally refer to when we talk about “slavery”. Though you’re gonna have to cite chapter and verse for saying it’s okay, I don’t recall anything like that.