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Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery

Zealots at the Gate

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The Progression Hermeneutics of the Founding Fathers

The Quran or the Bible doesn't say slavery's evil get rid of it, but it puts us on a trajectory towards that. The problem with that is it allows us to make sense of moral progress what it doesn't do is explain how God could ever have allowed something that's evil. If you believe the Old Testament is the word of God or revealed wisdom, how did God ever allow that if it was an evil across space and time? There's no answer to that.

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