Understanding atheist perspective

[Miekhie]

@Vinnie

it was using the fact that chattel slavery is immoral to demonstrate that made-up subjective systems of morality are nonsense.

I wonder why the OT people or prophets living in such cultures did not condemn the practice, but make regulations around it?

[Terry_Sampson]

The prophets usually condemn oppression rather than dismantling embedded economic institutions; Torah regulations function as restraint within a world where slavery was assumed, and prophetic rebukes focus on abuses (and on reneging on mandated release), not on modern-style abolition of the institution itself.

[1Cor15.54 (Massimiliano)]

@knor

Although some will disagree, there is a societal duty to try to take care of those who have nothing. Even the prophets of the Hebrew bible (OT) spoke about this, those who did not take care of the poor, orphans and widows were rebuked. In fact, that was a key reason why Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed.

I mean, Matthew 25:31–46 could hardly be clearer on this point.