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One of my personal favorites:
Jesus sure loved his slaves, huh? Gives you guidelines on how to beat them. Told people to "love your enemies," but clearly people you own don't deserve that courtesy. He hung out with prostitutes, but was never able to disavow the practice of owning other humans as property? Kind of unacceptable imo.
The canonical Bible (the supposed ordained word of god) also include's Paul's further interpretation of Jesus' teachings on slaves in...
Oof.
That passage you quoted is not giving guidelines on how to treat slaves, it is a parable using slaves as an example. Not saying the Bible is totally anti slavery, the second passage being pretty disgusting.
All he had to do was say, "don't own people," and yet...
The Bible is explicitly pro-slavery. It was literally used by slavers in the 19th century American South to justify and continue the practice of chattal slavery. They printed "slave Bibles" where all mentions of anything related to "freedom" were removed, and the focus was on teaching obedience and submission.
What a thing for an "all-powerful" god to facilitate. Even if he were real and simply allowed his holy book to be used for such an evil purpose is enough for me to say "yeah, no thanks."
Do you think that Christianity became the religion of imperialism out of coincidence?