The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid
When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans’ newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, “biblically, we are supposed to work.”
I would point out how the old testament also talks of owning slaves but since the reds are mask off fascists, that is unironically their goal as well.
Can you name 3 differences between chattel slavery and indentured servitude? I can name five but I don’t expect you to be as well researched.
This is a nit pick. The violence permits the selling and owning of people as property. Whatever you want to call it, that is immoral.
Yes I agree it is immoral and detestable and was also the softest option for the day. No other contemporary culture had any protection for indentured servants, yet the Bible demands it at the threat of community judgment against the harsh and cruel masters. And the children of indentured servants were free citizens.
Compared to today it was still brutal and inumane, but was the MOST humane option for literally 3000 years. It’s just not progressive compared to today’s values.
And today’s values won’t seem very progressive to progressive humans in 3000 years either, something you are probably incapable of understanding.
As long as you don’t pretend the bible didn’t permit slavery were all good.
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Lol. Fare well you unreasonable person. Hope you actually read the bible some day.
That only applied to Jewish slaves.
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Go for it, we’re all really interested
And he chickened out.
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the status of your child does not tell us whether or not you were a slave
this is just false. Foreign slaves were kept for life.
see 2
somw slaves having a “better life” than some free people is a common whitewashing tactic, which doesn’t make it not slavery.
having restrictions against the cruelest and most injust masters does not mean it isn’t slavery.
Can you tell me who wrote the Bible?
Douglas Adams?
What is the relevance to what I said? Servant and slave are both used in the bible, are you claiming only the US has ever had slavery?
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Fuck you too asshole.