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obedientnwilling -> RE: How many people here are Jewish? (11/26/2013 7:39:43 AM)
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I dated a Jewish dude once. However, he is so reform that he finds a way to work pork into just about everything he eats, including (I swear) chocolate. He's also the only person that I have ever actually heard antisemitic jokes from. One right after the other. They went on and on and on.
Anyway, the way to handle the "slave" concept is to actually READ Deuteronomy and the rest of the Pentateuch. They have rules like "Don't trouble yourself to knock all of the olives out of your trees by going over them a second time. Leave some for widows, fatherless children and foreigners." Where it says that, in Deuteronomy 24, it goes on to say "Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command this." The slavery talked about in your religion was NOT B&D fetish slavery. It was people being worked to death, and they were kept starving and miserable.
"Slave" in the B&D sense is a strictly voluntary position, for one thing. Secondly, the average American would benefit from a little bit of starvation. In the long-run, B&D relationships are supposed to be mutually nurturing, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were healthier than the average marriage. It just doesn't compare "apples to apples" with what your religion actually talks about.
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