And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
thigh: And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of
heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a
wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom
I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred,
and take a wife unto my son Isaac. - Righteous Abraham owned
slaves. Not good. Slave holding is bad. - Righteous Abraham
treated his slave well. This too is bad. Surely every slave
holder in history must have beat his slave and deprived him of
basic human rights, so that slavery may be decried as a moral
evil. How dare Abe put this slave in charge of all that he had?
- Righteous Abraham opposed woman’s suffrage. Abe’s arrangement
of his son’s marriage deprives the poor gal of her right to
choose her own groom. Boy and girl are supposed to meat at a
coffee shop on mutual terms, footing their own lattes. They are
not to meet by a tribal patriarch’s