What you are mis-representing there is that not only is the bible a collection of Gods word, a collection of good ways to live your life, it is also a collection of examples of hopw to really mess it up.
Mis-treatemnt of women is NOT a part of how you are guided by this book.
Slavery in the days of the OT was not the ‘involuntary SLAVERY’ depicted in the US 17-1800’s. It was mostly voluntary servitude ‘slavery’.
Practices in the bible and using them as a basis for our foundation and laws is what made this country so successful. Nice try at revisionism.
You know, that's a good point. Much of the Bible is simply history, stories from the past. Actually, most of it. The Koran, if I remember correctly, is no such thing. It's a list of rules. A BIG list.
The Quran purports to be exactly that too.
Mis-treatemnt of women is NOT a part of how you are guided by this book.
If you don't closely adhere to the book, then yes. If you allow more modern morals to influence your interpretation of the book, then yes.
Slavery in the days of the OT was not the ‘involuntary SLAVERY’ depicted in the US 17-1800’s. It was mostly voluntary servitude ‘slavery’.
That's a rich defense. It's slavery. Slavery, you know, what we consider to be immoral these days. Face it, involuntary servitude was a common part of life when the Bible was written, and thus the Bible regulated it. You make it sound like all of them were debt slaves, when that's not the truth. You think it's okay to beat your "voluntary" slave even to death? Talk about revisionism.
Practices in the bible and using them as a basis for our foundation and laws is what made this country so successful.
Luckily, we have left some of the practices behind. Women have equal rights and slavery is outlawed.