SLVR4ME, the point about slavery in the Bible is afaics actually astute. It says that people enslave themselves by for example being lazy and going into great debt. The Bible clearly says the slave owner is to set the slave free after 7 years and to attempt rehabilitate the slave. And yes, the slave owner is entitled to some rewards, after all they are rescuing the slave from the slave's own self destruction. If the slave is misbehaving the slave owner is a position to discipline them. The slave (or his/her parents) put themself in that predicament.

I think denial of reality and nature is one of the worst delusions we can do to ourselves, e.g. denial that collectively forced unnatural equality for women via legislation results in societal collapse.

The Bible is kind of cruelly frank when it points out astutely in the 10 Commandments that children suffer from their parents' mistakes.

http://blog.jim.com/economics/the-future-belongs-to-those-that-show-up/
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