Growing of the Roots (Part III)

So let just say that once again I am confused on the last of the reading that are suppose to do. Weil discusses the idea of slavery and how Romans viewed people that were slaves as degrading to all humans. I definitely agree with the fact that it is degrading to all humans and they should have not been treated that way, but at the time it was an action that was acceptable. From what was being said Romans like to have that type of control over people; the ability to make them tell lies or do evil things even though they didn’t really want to do.

 On page 265 Weil states, “The ‘slaves’ are men who have wanted with all their heart to give themselves to God as slaves. And although that means a gift made on the instant and once and for all, subsequently these slaves never cease for one second begging God to allow them to remain in slavery…If we were God’s property, how should we be able to give ourselves to him as slaves?”  This whole statement views people as being God’s slave but I don’t think that that is a good way to put it; instead it should be you are God’s child and you are willing to do any thing for him and to do right by him. The scenario that I give would be when children listen to their parents they are expected to do what they are told and they are not called a slave so why should anyone else be considered a slave of God? They are a child of God!