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. Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm Woe.

Today's episode of Stone Quire is going to be discussing the made-up sin of slavery. As we did a couple weeks ago, one about racism. We're now going to touch on another extremely hot topic. This is not a

dead issue. Slavery is something that although it has been eliminated in the West, it still

exists in other parts of the world. But the reason that it's still controversial is that it is

fundamentally rooted in much of the gospel message itself.

So the theme that we're going to present today is not only is slavery itself not a sin per se,

but in fact you can't actually understand scripture if you do not accept slavery qua slavery.

Before we get into the media this, I wanted to issue two brief corrections

from last week's episode. One, the last two episodes ran about five hours combined.

That's longer than we want these to be. In both cases, we were working line by line

through things that the Missouri Senate Corporation had issued. So we really didn't have quite the editorial control over what we had to discuss. We do have that control today. So we're going to keep this under 90 minutes, even if it means we have to cut our own microphones. So I'm not sure exactly how long this will be, but I promise you will be a regular length episode. As I was listening again to last week's episode, I heard myself say something that

really rubbed me the wrong way, so I'm sure it bugged some of you, and so I'd like to issue a correction of what I said. I mentioned that I had gone hunting with my dad, and I said I didn't really like it, and I said something about clover and bees, and when I was listening, I thought, man, that guy sounds like a complete hippie tree hugger.

That is not me.

So I want to clarify for the record in honor of my father and all of my ancestors and mighty

hunters like Nimrod, I do not think that hunting is a moral wrong. I think that hunting is a great

thing. As apex predators, as the pinnacle of creation, man in many places must hunt,

simply because we have displaced the other apex predators.

So I have no problems with hunting.

What I said and what I meant was that I personally, just as an aesthetic choice, when I see

a wild animal out my window or when I'm walking around in nature, my first thought is

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