I had a pretty solid discussion with an atheist irecently. We were actually exchanging ideas and there seem to be a mutual understanding when asking literal genuine question and I was providing some of the best answers that I could.
Then another guy jumped into the thread. We’ll call him “Yeast99”
He asked about slavery in the Bible. He wanted to know why the text mentions slavery if God is “perfectly loving."
I answered using scripture he himself quoted, with historical context, with the law as written.
He didn’t like that. He refused to accept it. He called that “dishonest.
Translation: he lost his footing.
Then came the profanity, and Bold Caps
But one thing I do know is When volume rises, reasoning drops. His ego stepped in because his argument checked out. He insisted that if the Bible is real, God should have instantly ended slavery everywhere.
I explained:
The God in the text is not the god of the enslavers. He is the God of the enslaved.
The liberation story is literally the center of the narrative. That's why it is The Exodus
He was like: “It’s all fake anyway!”
So I asked the obvious: “If it’s fake, why are you so emotionally invested in arguing about it?”
No answer.
Only name-calling.
He and his friends began deleting their own posts That removed some of mine too. Today he came back asking why my comments were gone.
Selective memory seems to be a core tenet of their belief system.
what they seem not to want to understand is:
Mentioning slavery does not equal condoning slavery.
When we learn about Dr. King being assassinated, our schools are not endorsing his murder.
They are acknowledging reality so truth can be understood and justice can progress.
If someone cannot separate a record of what happened from approval of what happened, their issue is not with theology.
It is with comprehension.
At the end of it all, Yeast99 called me delusional.
Which is usually what a person says when the argument has finished them before they can finish the argument.
I disengaged
— Leata Adair
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