GodIsImaginary proof #13: 'take a look at slavery'
- Do the Bible's slavery passages prove God is imaginary?
The hosts take on week 13 of the GodIsImaginary.com '50 proofs': the claim that Bible passages (Leviticus 25, Luke 7:2, Colossians 3, Titus 2) show God endorsing slavery, therefore God is imaginary. The site's argument is read nearly in full. The hosts rebut: God always moved the moral goalpost forward in each era (a progression from the norm toward dignity), sudden abolition would have collapsed the ancient economy, biblical 'slavery' was largely debt/indentured-service arrangements unlike American chattel slavery, and modern debt (car loans, mortgages) is its own kind of bondage. They close with the borrower-is-slave-to-the-lender principle and God's incremental baby-steps approach.
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