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Atheists & Agnostics

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6. They had

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 12:39 AM

Jul 2015

slavery regulations written in the old testament. smh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery

Would be nice to know just how far it goes back in religions.

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Is slavery part of religion or religion part of slavery ? [View all] olddots Jul 2015 OP

Or both. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #1

Religion has been used throughout history to control the weak Major Nikon Jul 2015 #2

Here's a slave market in 2015... onager Jul 2015 #4

This is quite saddening. ArianaA Jul 2015 #5

They had ArianaA Jul 2015 #6

Slavery is just another tool used by ion_theory Jul 2015 #7