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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 971300" data-attributes="member: 2795">Re: About EgyptAbout what? It is not my opinion that, for a time, Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. That is a fact, and facts are stubborn things, as I believe Harry S Truman observed.That's a good question. What I was reacting to was storyguide3's comment: "In other words, are [the Egyptians] painted as the bad guys, enslaving Israel, yadda, yadda, yadda" (emphasis mine).Now, maybe someone else can think of a nice guy way to enslave a people....Not at all. I much prefer that to wishy-washy cultural relativism that attempts to excuse a people's or nation's wrongdoings as being just one of an infinitely large number of perfectly valid choices.To hazard a guess, from all that I've seen and read about Testament, it is probably too even-handed in an effort to not offend anyone. It is certain that no one can accurately accuse Testament as being some sort of apologetic for Judaism against its Ancient Near East competitors.</blockquote>