I didn’t say it was god. These are alleged historical events. You don’t get to just say it didn’t happen.
Slavery was real, and the Old Testament has explicit rules about it. And Jesus never had a single thing to say about it (besides the thing about fulfilling the old law. Which, again, explicitly includes slavery).
This has NOTHING to do with fundamentalism. You don’t get to hand wave this shit away, it’s at the very core of the religion you claim to believe.






People often use it to try to get off opiates (or to relieve withdrawal symptoms), and I’m not sure how much kratom you need to take for it to kill you. So I’m wondering if your friend was struggling with opioid addiction and maybe it wasn’t the kratom that killed him.