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Upper asia is Russia, China, etc. People are not allowed to own other people in those countries. You are playing semantics. If you want to insist that there are more slaves today than there were in biblical times, you have to provide the evidence. The burden of proof is on you, as common sense indicates that because slavery is now illegal in all civilized western countries, it is less common worldwide now than it was in biblical times.
You've already forgotten what the argument was about. Slavery is indeed illegal in most industralized western nations but that doesn't stop it from being there. If we were to remove the restriction on slavery what do you think would happen? Would the more morally advanced people of today as you claim denounce it or exploit it, because I'm sure it would be hard to find a company from a western nation using child or near slave labour from abroad in this day an age:rolleyes:
Here are a few for you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4534393.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4532617.stm[b]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6459369.stm[b]
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Then what happens? In relatively short order, law is reestablished. Who reestablishes law? Is it God? no. Is it some magic angel that comes down from heaven? No. It is PEOPLE. Without law, some people may temporarily act improperly, but by and large, law is reestablished again by people. Granted, when a very powerful dictator reestablishes that law, it is often an anti-law, but the point stands that law is implemented by man, not by God.
Absolutely only when law is establish do people begin to act "morally" not because of their own morallity but do to fear from the state. This was also the case in ancient times , as long as there was a state people would act according to the law. So what is one to do should a state like Nazi Germany rise again to restore order , what type of morallity would arise from such a state.
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Compared to biblical times, women worldwide have far more freedom and respect. You can not seriously argue that women are not less subjugated now than they were in 1AD.
Never did, I just said that today the number of women oppressed far exceeds the number of women who are not. But then again you only seem to be concerned about the west and not the rest of the world.
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Relative to the bible, yes. I have clients in China who have jobs, make and save money, and tell me their opinions. Their society isn't as "free" as ours, but they are not living under the type of tyranny that you seem to allude to.
So does the fact the state forcefully confiscates the land from the people and brutally puts down protests doesnt bother you?
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Morality and "values" to me means treating my fellow man with dignity and respect always.
I don't disagree with this but I do with the idea that we've somehow become more moral now than we were then.