Atheist Billboard Offends Some African-Americans

[Sal316]

93. Here's the thing.

It doesn't matter that you don't see it as offensive, others do. That's what sits behind all the "I apologize if you were offended" half-hearted apologies is an inability or unwillingness to see the offensiveness of whatever.

Second, to think that the Bible was "fine with the concept of slavery like that" is to think of slavery purely in 17th Century America as being the same as in "biblical times" (for lack of a better phrase). In fact, Exodus states the punishment for someone who kidnaps another to sell them into slavery (Ex 21:16).

Moreover, what most people who make the blanket claim of "the Bible condones slavery" are missing is that while, yes, slavery did exist, and it is mentioned in the Bible, the economic realities of Ancient Near East and Roman Cultures are wildly different than 17th Century Virginia, and the rules/regulations about slaves in the OT/NT make the early American slavery experience an aberration, and not a Biblical model.