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Originally Posted by KB24
Did you read what I said?
Buddha said nothing about gay sex or gay marriages or gays.
I saw several people quote verses from the bible, "the word of God", that condemns gays as sinners. Christianity gets flake for this because Bible has multiple verses condemning gays, having cavalier attitude towards slaves. Buddha holds none of those views. His goal was to FREE ALL HUMANS from suffering. Not just non gays or non slaves or Christians.
Well nobody on this board knows the first thing about slavery in the ancient world and bothered to check on it except Jib and me and maybe NotReady.
I suggest you take a look at the bible subtopic on slavery in the book Hard Sayings of the Bible. It explains a few things about it. Tim Keller in his book The Reason for God explains a bit more.
Modern chattel "race based" slavery wasn't identical to the slavery of the ancient world. Also Israel implemented slavery differently from other countries implementation of it.
As far as I can tell nobody on this board has the Old Testament chops they need for all the political conclusions they are drawing and advancing.
The ancient world just didn't operate identically to us today.