This was my favorite lecture so far because of the portion where we talked about biblical economics, I’m an economics major. The situation we talked about with ancient peoples selling themselves to slavery in times of need was a crazy thing to think about, even if we did talk about how slavery wasn’t as bad then. When I think of American society and really all of western society the number one priority I think of is our civil liberties, to give them up is the very last thing I would do on this planet. When you really dive into it and think about the moral differences in today’s society and then it makes sense. We discussed a lot of the differences between now and then in class, but for our morals to be so different when we come from the same religious roots is fascinating. It doesn’t seem like God would change the things he wants humans to practice so this begs the question of who’s truly following God’s word best.
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The economy was very different back then. I really like the distinction you made between American slavery and Biblical time slavery because they were very different things. Of course some slaver were forced into labor at that time, but other people sold themselves into slavery because they needed money, and that is something very interesting. It really makes you wonder how bad a person could have had it that they would chose to give up freedom to help themselves through an economic crisis. And you are right that it is something that people would probably not do today, morally. I enjoyed your outlook on this subject.