Believe or die is NOT a moral thing to do nor is it a legitimate choice. Who exactly said believe or die? I know I didn't write that nor is that what any Christian believes lol. If that's how you have always seen it then well, that is a shame.
Lol, that's not how it works. You're just making stuff up. Well I cant be 'making stuff up' if I quoted exactly how you said it and what other way could it work besides there own definitions?
Now in response to the 'slavery' you speak of. This is not the same slavery you and I know of. These are SERVANTS (nice try though). Black people obviously did not have the same rights in relation to these 'slaves' you speak of. No black person would have loved their master for getting whipped at the cotton fields.
From the very verse you gave me, 20 “And if a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished. Yes it CONDONES slavery doesn't it?
“However, if a man meets a girl who isn’t engaged to be married, and he seizes her, rapes her, and is later found out, 29 then the man who raped her must give 50 shekels of silver to the girl’s father. Furthermore, he must marry her. Because he violated her, he is to not divorce her as long as he lives.
Do you know what 'condones' actually means? This verse speaks on what should follow if a man rapes another women who is specifically a virgin and not engaged. As you know it is a commandment to not covet your neighbors wife and to not commit adultery so there is no question that there are consequences for all of these sins. There are consequences here just like there is in the Law today. These consequences were sufficient at the time. AND if you want to talk about the context of rape, in other versions it does not use 'rape' so really you are just tying to cherry pick which version suits your Atheist claim that the Bible 'condones' these things even when it obviously (if you bothered to read and understand it yourself) does not. Here is another version of the same scenario: Exodus 22:16-17 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins." I think every reasonable human being would agree that if the Bible CONDONED rape, the rapist would not have to pay anything, or wed his victim and not divorce her under any circumstances. Obviously you are not reasonable, even though such a hypocrite cries that all religious people are unreasonable for their beliefs... I'm going to dissect another one to discredit your obvious bullshit so that you don't conjure up the nerve to respond with more bullshit.
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Do I have to dissect this actually? It obviously condones rape and slavery here doesn't it?
Once again, you just got destroyed by your own book that you never bothered to read. I got 'destroyed huh'? And its yes I have never read these verses before but I guess you found them from an Atheist hotline site looking for the 'best ways to use the Bible against Christians'. LOL I guess for your unintelligent ass, it would appear 'too easy'. Don't worry child. I understand how easy your age group would see these kind of things. You'll try a bit harder next time though right?