[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[Case]

[Platt]
Where in the Bible does it say Jesus advocated slavery?

[Case]
Jesus made scant reference to slaves but Paul picked up the slack. "Slaves,
obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with eyeservice,
as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord."

Paul had several version of this sort of thing and compared man's slavery to
sin to the freedom obtained with becoming a slave to the Lord. Southerns in
the 1800's had little trouble justifying slavery on Biblical grounds.

[Platt] 
(In reference to Christian communists in the first century)
Where did the put the gulags?

[Case]
Gulags to not a communist make. Having them does rather make one a
totalitarian, though. The fact remains that what Jesus preached and what his
first followers practiced was a form of communism.

> [Case]
> Image my shock when not so long ago you argued forcefully and 
> repeatedly that these rights could legitimately be taken away with no 
> justification whatsoever.

[Platt]
I did? Got a post you can refer to?

[Case]
This was a recurring theme in our Sin Part 1 discussion a couple of months
ago. It would seem that gulag is in the eye of the beholder.