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skepticraven · 6 years

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Black America has buckled and accepted this blatant brainwashing of slaves. African-American Christians can’t even take issue with the Rev. Colcock-Jones because he was simply obeying the Bible. Case and point:

1) Titus 2:9-10 “Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.”

Sounds like God needs a new title. A more accurate title than savior. “God the Enslaver” rings much more accurate. If the god of the Bible was real, we’d all be his slaves. Before the civil war, the sum total of free will that slaves had was one singular choice: Disobey your master and get the whip or fall in line with the master’s wishes. Disobedience was swiftly and harshly punished. Well, if the Christian god were real then we are in much the same situation. Your choices are either to fall in line with his wishes or your disobedience will be punished with eternal torment in hell. The punishment of damnation may be slightly less immediate than the whip but the threat would loom nonetheless. Frankly, the whip sounds merciful compared to burning for all eternity. Thankfully, there is not a shred of compelling evidence that a God or Gods are real, much less the Christian god.

2) Colossians 4:1 “Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.”

You cannot treat a slave justly AND enslave them. Those 2 things are incompatible. Plus, remember how I just told you this god character would be like a plantation slave owner. Colossians 4:1 even refers to God as the master drawing a direct comparison between slave owners and God.

3) Leviticus 25:44-46 “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule.”

How specific. The phrase “God’s chosen people” suddenly takes on a whole new meaning. Chosen for a slavery exemption. How about, just don’t own people?

4) Exodus 21:1- 5 ″Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. If thou buy a Hebrew slave, 6 years he shall serve: and in the 7th he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. Or the servant may plainly say, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free.” “

Compare the past two listed verses: Exodus 21:2 and Leviticus 25:44-46. Notice how they contradict each other? Leviticus says owning Jews as slaves is a no-no. Exodus says the Jewish slaves are to be free after the 6th year. (Jeremiah 34:14 reaffirms this 6-year rule for Hebrew slaves). Supposedly, MOSES WROTE BOTH LEVITICUS AND EXODUS. Either he has a short memory and lacked a consistent position on slavery OR Moses didn’t write both books. (Most likely, he didn’t write either because we have no proof Moses was a real person and not just a character in a story that people took too seriously). The Bible is deeply contradictory. It will set up rules for how slaves and their masters are to behave. It sets up biblical laws around purchasing slaves and says this morally permissible. Then it will turn around and say slavery is not allowed. It does the same dance of contradiction with murder too. This is part of why the Bible is a dangerous book. It can be used to excuse atrocities and then people will defend the Bible as a moral compass.

I have one last point about Exodus 21:1-5,. It is saying that if the master essentially gives (aka orders) a slave to take a wife, he has to choose to either abandon his wife/kids after those 6 years or he is stuck being a slave if he wants to stick with him. Sounds like a clever way to keep a Hebrew slave in bondage. Its coercion.

5) Luke 12:47 “And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who unknowingly acted against his master’s will shall receive a light beating.

I’ve heard people try to excuse the slavery verses by claiming slavery meant something different at that time. That’s total hogwash but even pretending I bought that excuse, this verse still condones beating the shit out someone who didn’t obey you or even unintentionally displeased you. You can substitute any word you want for slavery and you still have a disciple advising assaulting someone for no good reason.

6) Leviticus 19:20-22 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.”

Slaves have no true free will. Having sex with a slave would be rape- whether it is physically forced or just coerced. For example, prison guards sleeping with inmates is by definition rape for the same reason. Inmates and slaves can’t just leave the situation. Even if the inmate/slave says yes at the time, they know saying no would likely result in serious consequences so they guard/slave owner has not received consent. According to the Bible, if you rape your slave, she/he is to be murdered and you kill an animal for God. Just let that sink in for a second.

7) Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.”

Watch out lazy people! Aside from the immorality of forced labor (aka slavery), this verse is dripping with irony. Have you ever been to a Baptist Church for those fried chicken luncheons that they do on occasion? Sloth and gluttony is their bread and butter.

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

What could be more quintessentially immoral than minimizing a murder victim to a financial loss for the slave owner? And what does it matter if he survives a day or two? Dead is dead. Although I guess death might be preferable to enslavement... It would be to me.

9) Exodus 21:26-27 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.”

Gee, is God not merciful?

10) Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey those who are your earthly masters in everything, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

I cannot love or respect any being that wants to be feared or that allows the endorsement of immorality in his name. Immorality that masquerades as morality.

11) 1 Timothy 6:1 “Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.”

Who reads this and thinks this book is at all moral? Not only is slavery not forbidden, but slavery owners are worthy of honor? DA FUQ?

12) Galatians 3:28 ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

I am sure that was very comforting to the slaves. Although, it is noteworthy that the Bible says there is no male or female. I guess, the Christian anti-transgender argument is null and void.

13) 1 Peter 2:18 “Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.”

Fuck Peter for supposedly writing this. Fuck your god for supposedly decreeing or inspiring this. Anyone who holds up the Bible as the pinnacle of morality has clearly not read it too closely.

14) Exodus 22:2-3 “If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. “

So theft (no matter how small) makes you a slave. A starving guy steals an apple and then BAM! Sold into slavery- assuming you don’t kill him. Moses confuses vengeance with justice.

15) 1 Corinthians 12:13 “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”

Slaves don’t care about drinking of the spirit. They care about breathing free air and not getting their teeth kicked in because their master had a bad day.

16) Ephesians 6:5-7 “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the LORD, not people.”

Not only do you have to obey some asshole who owns you, you have to be sincere in your obedience. You have to mean it. If a slave achieves that, he or she is suffering from stockholm syndrome.

18) Exodus 21:32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Its bad enough someone is dead and was a slave but now you’re killing an animal for being an animal?

I am sure there are examples I missed but you get the point. I know it’s hard to think rationally about what you were taught from birth. These things become a part of your identity and that tends to make people defensive when faced with uncomfortable truths. People feel attacked when you point out inconsistencies in their beliefs. But I hope you will try to set emotion aside for a moment anyway.

When you get down to the nitty-gritty, the only “evidence” of the Christian god is the Bible which is no evidence at all. Anyone can write anything down. We have no original manuscript for the Bible. We aren’t even sure there was one single original manuscript at all and even if there was, that would not prove validity and the Bible we have today would inevitably be completely different from the original since this is essentially the world’s longest-running game of telephone. The Bible spent well over a thousand years being copied and translated by hand. Its hard not incorrectly transcribe something on accident but Catholic priests had a lot of power way back then. Power corrupts. They had reason to alter it to their liking and they gave mass in Latin to church-goers who were largely illiterate, even in their native language. There are currently hundreds of versions of the Bible in English alone and thousands upon thousands of sects of Christianity. There are books that have been rejected from the Bible. There are numerous verses that contradict one another, even in the same book. (For example, Genisis says that animals were created before Adam. Then it turns around to say they were created after). We know some biblical stories flat out did not happen. (Like Jonah and the whale or Noah’s ark). With a few exceptions, the people who supposedly wrote the Bible were primarily carpenters, shepherds, farmers, fishermen, and similar types of professions. Such people would have been totally illiterate during that time period and obviously, they are all dead and thus cannot be questioned for information. That’s if they all even existed in the first place. We know for sure that, at minimum, the names of the apostles were Europeanized. (To give a few examples, Matthew’s would have been Mattityahu. James was Yakov. John was Yochanan. Judas Iscariot was Yehuda. Thomas was Tau’ma).

Another issue is that the Bible plagiarized stories from numerous pre-existing religions: both monotheistic and polytheistic. For example, the Persian scriptures of the Zoroastrians tell the story of how their god created the world and the first 2 humans in 6 days and then rested on the 7th. The Zoroastrians also invented the concept of heaven and hell and their art portrays the prophet Zarathustra as being surrounded by the same halo of light in which Christian figures are often depicted. Zarathustra even looks like Jesus before they white-washed Jesus. Chapter 125 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is the same as the 10 commandments only written in negative confession. The story of the great flood was HEAVILY inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh- right down to using birds to find dry land and the fact that the boat landed on top of a mountain. There are more examples of plagiarized stories but you get the point. Even without all the aforementioned issues, god only seemed to want to announce himself before we kept good records or were capable of documenting evidence of alleged miracles and such. That alones screams bullshit. Ancient man simply made up supernatural explanations to explain things they didn’t understand and to quell their fears about death.

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