Atheist Billboard Offends Some African-Americans

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106. I can agree with being told why it's offensive.

There are times when the things we say/do are offensive to others, and we're unaware. So, yeah, I'll agree with you there.

The Exodus quote is to counter that the Bible endorsed the systemic slavery of the slave trade. It didn't. Plain and simple. Kidnapping and selling people into slavery, the basis of the slave trade, was forbidden by the Bible.

The economic realities isn't an attempt to justify slavery in the Roman Empire. Not in the least. Yet, to ignore that that society was the way it was and would have had influence on society's understanding of God and the interaction with humanity is to be intentionally ignorant. Humanity has come a long way, societal constructs have evolved over the last couple of millenia.

I find atheist literalist interpretation of Biblical passages to be as devoid of intellectual honesty as fundamentalists who do the same thing.

A professor of mine once said "Reading a text without context it pretext for a prooftext". To pull a verse out, strip it of any context, is intellectually lazy.