I believe Morality is absolute, that there are several indisputable Universal Laws and that there are other laws that were relative to the times in which they were written.

Slavery, for example. The Gospels. The Torah. The Talmund. They all talk about the proper way to treat slaves and the proper way for slaves to act and so on and so forth.

I do not, however, believer Slavery is mandated as a practice. Meaning we, as humans, are totally free to outlaw the practice and celebrate the current state of the world on that front.

I mean, really let it sink in how far we've come. In the past, it was just a part of life that women and children were war trophies, and that such enslavement was almost a part of life.

Now, just about every nation wants to make a great show of how merciful and well-mannered their armies are in victory. True or not.

God and the Prophets legislated around slavery, but they did not mandate it.

If this makes any sense.