Recently, atheist Alex O'Connor, aka the Cosmic Skeptic, interrogated the Catholic

Answers AI apologist Justin on the subject of the Bible and slavery.

At some point, I want to give a complete response on the subject of slavery in the Bible,

but right now, I'm completely exhausted.

As you saw in previous episodes, my wife Laura had brain surgery last week.

Then a few days after she left

the hospital, she had a seizure. And so we spent the rest of the day in the emergency room making

sure she was okay. The rest of the time at home, Laura's medication has kept her from sleeping,

and she has aphasia. She isn't able to articulate 99% of her words or she mixes them up.

For example, when I asked Laura what a squirrel was on our walk,

she confidently said, that's a banana. With speech therapy, she should be fine in a few months,

but in the meantime, I've basically been playing a non-stop game of charades with my wife to communicate

with her, so I'm a bit drained. However, I felt some kind of response should be

made since Alex's video was directly related to Catholic answers and Alex showed me in the

beginning of his episode. So I'm just going to offer a few thoughts to help everyone think through

the question of slavery in the Bible. I'm not going to be able to comprehensively address the issue,

but in the future, I'll try to sit be able to comprehensively address the issue, but in the future,

I'll try to sit down and develop a more complete response. And if you like to help our family

during this time, especially while I step back from most of my public speaking to care for Laura,

consider becoming a monthly supporter at trendhornpodcast.com. So in Alex's video, he gets Justin to

contradict himself by saying that slavery both is and is not intrinsically immoral.

I just wanted to point out editing this that earlier I asked Justin if slavery is intrinsically immoral and he said,

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