Beat On The Brat, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

What can you do?
With barbaric logic
Always on your back
What can they construe?

If you kill your slave
It shall be avenged
If your slave survives
No harm in the end

Don’t you break
That which makes
Your dough and bread
Don’t kill them dead

Yoke the restraint
Don’t make a complaint
Thoughts of freedom
Always faint

Beat your slave
Don’t gouge an eye
Don’t break a tooth
To get them to comply

Nowhere in
Commandments of 10
Does this God
Of slavery condemn

Countless verses
In that book
One could point to
That they overlook

Bequeath you shall
To your loins of male
Your property shackled
Forced labor dwells

Of rods to spoil
The slave does toil
Humanity’s cruelty
Makes my blood boil

I’m reading it wrong
Out of context they say
Their vulgar apology
Has no sway
(end)

The bible doesn’t just have 1 verse or 2 verses about slavery. It has dozens and dozens, and not jus the O.T. But the NT as well. It only tells you how to beat your slave without leaving a mark, and to not break your money maker, like not breaking your saw or drill or nail gun. If you kill your slave, you hurt your ability to make money.

It does allow you to own, buy, sell trade, slaves with other tribes. Hebrews can only be slaves for 6 years. You can own females as slaves too. Point is the bible does not flat out condone slavery. It is ok under certain conditions, according to the Bible.

I find these morals to be 100% inexcusable and repugnant and evil. And the only argument you get is apology in saying “You are taking It out of context”. Or, “It says not to hurt them, see?” It says not to hurt your money maker, but nowhere in any of those verses does it say word for word, “It is never ok to own another human, or to have indentured servitude.” It allows for ownership of other human beings, and forced labor boy proxy of debt.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/slaves_beat There are dozens of verses condoning slavery and indentured servitude at this link.

Notes on this poem:

The title of this poem is an ode to the Ramone’s song “Beat On The Brat”, which is my metaphor for wanting to take a time machine back in time and beat the crap out of the writers who wrote those vile verses.