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If slavery was so bad why didn't they just run away?
submitted 1 year ago by sneako from self.AskSaidIt
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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (9 children)
Yeah, my interest was kind of rekindled by that and other conversations here on Saidit. I'm not Christian, but these stories are fascinating, and tell us a lot about the history of our culture and values. My favorite stories are The Garden of Eden, and Cain and Abel, these are really profound and full of metaphors about the nature of humanity
[–]Musky 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun - 1 year ago (8 children)
. I'm not Christian
Are you Jewish? 😮
My favorite is proverbs, the wisdom of King Solomon and others.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago* (7 children)
Are you Jewish?
😂
I'm not much for organized religions. There is an underlying order to the universe, and natural laws that might come from somewhere. I'm not against calling that God or The Gods, or anything spiritual, but think organized religion is created by man, and often very inconsistent with my own ideas about this.
For example, Jesus says to turn the other cheek. Natural law and game theory says morality is based on tit-for-tat, and without disincentivizing these bad behaviors, we get more of them. The entire premise of justice is based on consequences for doing the wrong thing, not in the afterlife, but in this life. If a man strikes me, I ought to strike him back equally, or he will think he can strike my neighbor as well, and will continue until someone does. I'm also pretty sure if God exists, he isn't a petty jealous paternalistic tyrant as depicted in the old testament, these are people's ideas about God and morality, and like many other peoples ideas, i dont think these are very good ones imho.
I think morality and natural laws exist, and if they comes from God, they wouldn't look anything like organized religion tells us they do. My god wants me to obey the natural laws, not for HIS benefit, but for my own and my fellow mans, so things can be better for all, including me
[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun - 1 year ago (5 children)
Are you Jewish? 😂 I'm not much for organized religions.
I'm not much for organized religions.
So the answer is yes.
[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (4 children)
Lmao, no dude, I'm not Jewish, you must be really obsessed with Jews to read that into my comment
[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
One need not be obsessed with jews to notice.
[–]MightyMorphinFaggot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
only a jew capitalized jew.
jew confirmed.
[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Auto correct capitalizes Jewish
[–]MightyMorphinFaggot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Turn off autocorrect for maximum gains
[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
No, Jesus had it right. The natural order is evil.
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