Debate: Is Religion a Rational Belief to Have?
Side: Yes Religion is/Mixed/Other

You didn't answer my question you avoided it. First of all where does it say in the Bible that God approves of slavery?"He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:16) What does this scripture say?Slavery was completely different in Old Testament times...and there were specific rules as the Word states on slaves. No sex with slaves, they can't work on the sabbath, hurting or injuring a slave was punishable by death. "If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished." (Exodus 21:20)"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. "And if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth." (Exodus 21:26-27)"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:12)"Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves. (Exodus 23:12)Do not slander a slave to his master, Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty. (Proverbs 30:10)'Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free. (Leviticus 19:20)"You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. (Deuteronomy 23:15)'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service. 'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. 'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. 'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. 'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God. (Leviticus 25:39-43)"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment." (Exodus 21:2)He who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be a son. (Proverbs 29:21)All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against. Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles. (1 Timothy 6:1-2)And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him. (Ephesians 6:9)Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven. (Colossians 4:1)It is false to say a Christian would condone slavery. The fact is in biblical times people volunteered to be slaves.