Comment on thoughts and prayers for science

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He could have also told people it’s not ok to own slaves.

  But apparently that was just a step too far.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty sure jews didn’t own slaves back then.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could not be more incorrect.

      www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+21&ve…

      20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

      They Old Testament were rules for the Hebrews, and in it there are rules for how to treat your Hebrew slaves. Huh.

      “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy a Hebrew slave,[a] he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_slavery

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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Jews owned slaves back then, they weren’t morally superior to the Romans in any way.

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