[The Urban Sombrero]

Requiring people of advanced age and declining health, or those who lack transportation, to get to the courthouse creates an obstacle to voting. If you worked with the poor or elderly, you would know that. Instead, you preen like a peacock with a smug cocksureness more befitting a stiff-necked Jew of yore than a servant spirit Christian.

Of course, Paul negated the owner/slave relationship, and offered Onesimus to Philemon as a brother. However, Paul said, "If he owes you anything, charge it to me." If what Onesimus owed was only the work of a slave, how could Paul be charged? It seems that Paul is offering to make good what is owed. The relationship between Onesimus and Philemon bears little resemblance to the slave/master/overseer "human chattel" trade...and you know it.