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pecuniumdKos has some scary stuff.
Cary Christian
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.
Which makes one wonder what the, "Southern" side is? (pace to those readers from the South who take offense, this is the way they paint you, not the way I do).
Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.
Makes me wonder what all those damned abolitionists were against?
Oh that's right, they were moralising do-gooders, and Puritans, who wanted to force a narrow interpretation of the Bible on the poor South. Heck, it's worse than that, they were liberals.
Cary Christian
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.
Which makes one wonder what the, "Southern" side is? (pace to those readers from the South who take offense, this is the way they paint you, not the way I do).
Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.
Makes me wonder what all those damned abolitionists were against?
Oh that's right, they were moralising do-gooders, and Puritans, who wanted to force a narrow interpretation of the Bible on the poor South. Heck, it's worse than that, they were liberals.
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Date: 2004-12-10 05:27 pm (UTC)If we are a minority, it is a small one (and the majority is not monolithic, so we probably aren't a real minority, in most things).
Which is part of why we see the trends to supression, and sore winning.
If we, the loyal opposition (and a large one) feel so pressed, we can only hope that we become more vocal, more in the world.
Silence = death.
Maybe not ours, but perhaps the Republic's.
TK
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:11 pm (UTC)