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- From: spinoza@next06wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Why is Nykios AntiBible?
- Message-ID: <17153@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:07:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.213528.764@wetware.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.213528.764@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux,
- just drieux) writes:
- > nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >
- > ] In <1992Nov8.184806.26949@wetware.com> drieux@wetware.com (drieux,
- just drieux) writes:
- > ] >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- > ] >] A brief excerpt from his article, "Uncivil Liberties," which
- appeared
- > ] >] in the March 1990 issue of _Crisis_, follows, closing this post.
- > ] >]
- > ] >] Unless the anti-slavery principle holds true absolutely, other
- > ] >] exceptions to it will also be possible.
- > ] >]
- > ] >] Peter Nyikos
- > ]
- > ]
- > ] >Well its clear that this citation of yours is
- > ] >intended to establish that you are AGAINST
- > ] >biblical principles, and what the BIBLE has
- > ] >to say about Slavery.
- > ]
- > So YOU ADMIT that the Current US Government is DIRECTLY
- > at war with the Bible!
- >
-
- Putting aside the NT for th emoment , and picking up the TClassic, I note
- the following:
- Ummmm. Actually,Master Drieux, painful as it is, MensaBoy has a point
- here, sort of. While the Bible was not against slavery in ANY form, it was
- certainly on record against the type of slavery we used to have in the
- good ol' US of A, in several important respects:
-
-
- The involuntary slave - one who has been sold into slavery by others-
- "shall serve thee 6 years, and in the 7th year thou shalt let him go free"
- (Deuteronomy 15:12). This was for the protection of non-Jewish
- slaves, since Jews were not permitted to sell other Jews into slavery:
- "If a man be found to be stealingany of his bretheren of th echildren of
- Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him, then that theif
- shall die; so shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee"
- (Deuteronomy 24:7)
-
- The voluntary slave (indentured servant) - "And if they brother be waxen
- poor with thee, and sell imself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to
- serve as a bondservant. As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be
- with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of Jubilee. Then shall
- he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto
- his own family"
- (Leviticus 25:39-41)
-
- In addition, Pagan as well as Jewish slaves were protected from brutality
- at the hands of their master; the Jewish master who killed a slave to be
- punished with death, as if he were an ordinary murderer. For lesser acts
- of violence, the slave was to be given his freedom, unconditionally: "And
- if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwomen, and
- destroy it, he shall let him go for his eyes sake. and if he smite out his
- bondsmans tooth, or his bondwomans tooth, he shall let him go free for his
- tooths sake".
-
-
- In addition, should a slave escape, there were laws against forcible
- return:
- " Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondsman that is escaped
- from hi9s master unto thee; he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of
- thee, in th eplace which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it
- liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him"
- (Deuteronomy 23:16-17)
-
-
- Finally , it should be noted that some segments of the historic Jewish
- community forbade any type of slavery. According to Philo, in his
- description of the Essenes (the guys Jesus hung out with in the desert):
- "There is not a single slave among them, but they are all free, serving
- one another; they condemn masters, not only as representing a system of
- unrighteousness in opposition to that of equality, but as personifications
- of wickedness in that they violate the law of nature which made us all
- brethren, created alike".
-
-
- It would seem, therefore, that a great deal of evidence points to
- dissapproval of slavery in the Bible, master Drieux.
-
-
-
- Oh, and one more thing, Master Drieux: the correct title is
- ZionistImperialistLackeyParasiteoftheRightThinkingProletariatLiberalElite,
- and I'll thank you to use it in future.
-
-
- ciaosers,
-
- jeff
-
- "From the Nile to the Nile -- the Long Way"
-
-
-