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"You're saying that we have to understand context.
I think we do. You were saying that some people believe faith has nothing to do with history. The fact is, somebody wrote those texts. They wrote them in a world in which slavery was taken for granted. That's a different world. So if we don't understand that, well, it says, Slaves, obey your masters, for this is right. "
Context? How can this be taken seriously? She's right, somebody wrote those texts. What else needs to be said about it? I see this bizarre behavior all the time. The rational part of a person's brain will speak up, and then the fantasy-land religious part of the brain will answer with some other excuse.
