Idunno, probably? Being nice to the downtrodden seemed to be more or less his thing when he wasn't telling people that he was his own imaginary sky daddy 🤷

Pretty sure he didn't actually FREE all the slaves or even told slavers to please do so, though. Spartacus is a much better role model than Jesus in that aspect.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here, here! Jesus just did lame stuff like die on a cross. He could have saved a bunch of slaves sometime around 30 AD, specifically in the region of Roman occupied Israel. That would have been more important for the history of humanity.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't tell if you're being genuine or sarcastic. If it's the former, I completely agree.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine or sarcastic.

Whichever gets me the most upvotes from you. Death of the Author, Poe's Law, and all of that.

Call me a mirror, 'cause if you be projecting, I be reflecting.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okeydoke

[–] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the time, maybe. But the few times slavery is mentioned in the NT the focus is on treatment of slaves, not abolition. And even then, for slave owners who didn't follow Christian teachings, slaves were basically told to suck it up and get back to work (1Peter 2:18). Paul appears to free Onesimus in the book of Philemon (although I can't tell if his intended meaning is literal), and it's also worth noting that Christian nations were the first to abolish chattel slavery, but it'd be a stretch to say the Bible directly discourages slavery.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Actually, the first nation to abolish chattel slavery was Haiti, which was NOT a Christian nation at the time. The country as we know it today was literally founded through a successful slave revolt!