Is meritocracy a myth?

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Slavery was considered okay in the bible that proves that God is bad

Hold up. You're confusing cultural context with moral endorsement. The Bible *regulated* slavery in ways that were radically progressive for 1200 BCE—rules about treatment, release years, and dignity that ancient societies didn't have. That's not God saying slavery is good, it's harm reduction in a world where slavery already existed. Modern abolitionists were *Christian*, by the way. William Wilberforce used scripture to argue slavery violated God's image in humans. The logic of human dignity in the Bible *itself* eventually crushed slavery from within. You can't judge an ancient text by 2024 standards and call it proof God doesn't exist. That's just bad historical thinking.

read exodus 20 21

I know what it says—slavery laws with protections. But you're missing the point. Those regulations *limited* harm in a culture where slavery was already embedded. You don't get to use "God allowed regulated slavery" to prove God's evil when the same text explicitly grounds human worth in being made in God's image. That principle—human dignity—is what eventually *abolished* slavery. Christians used that exact foundation to argue slavery violated God's design. The Bible's own logic destroys slavery from within. Cherry-picking one passage while ignoring the moral arc doesn't prove God is bad. It just proves you're reading selectively.