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I can understand where you are coming from Raf. However, if you honestly are inviting a discussion on these topics, could you be clear on what you consider is dodging. Because, to myself, you make it sound very subjective. Is it dodging to point out true facts if they are about the subject but not necessarily answering your questions? It's hard to define terms, set the stage, etc, if instead everything must be said in one fell swoop.. There's a number of things that would need to be discussed alongside these questions to discuss these fully. Issues with language (The original Hebrew language being lost when the Jews went into exile), issues with culture (the western thought of slavery is not the same in the eastern culture), bridging the 3000+ years gap is not as easy as just reading a sentence and relating it to anything today, actually speaking it is impossible to go back 3000+ years and know for certain, which opens the door for subjectivity even when one attempts to be objective. When I mention culture, I'm not talking about it being treated differently and given a pass, but rather understanding their way of life. Because to the eastern mindset, what we call "employees" today is barbaric to what they called ebed("slaves") in the Tanakh (It's demeaning to many Jews to call it the Old Testament).