From: spinoza@next06wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Why is Nykios AntiBible?
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:07:41 GMT

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"