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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 07:25 pm (UTC)I see, looking at the website TJ's locations that they plan to open one in Silver Spring, MD, which I can add to the best coffee in the U.S., and a whole foods, for when I am in that part of the world and want comfot foods.
If you want to make it, get a tart, not a sweet, cherry. Dried, of course, and add small handful.
As for Cary, well we know that it's evil, and that they are aiming at the fallacy of equivalence (that two views, if presented side by side much each have some validity) as a way to show how wicked the world is.
One of the parents said the pamphlet was a good thing, because in the public schools they only get one version of things, and that isn't education, it's indoctrination. The same arguement gets made in regards to the Intelligent Design argument (if one finds a watch there must have been a watchmaker, and life is far more complex than a watch, ergo... Q.E.D. evolution can't have happened).
And by teaching with this method, the ability of the students to reject obvious pap is decreased, but I am at risk of ranting, so I'll stop.
TK
TK
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Date: 2004-12-10 07:31 pm (UTC)As for the rest-- *moan* *Sigh*
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Date: 2004-12-10 07:39 pm (UTC)Think grapes versus raisins.
TK
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Date: 2004-12-10 08:03 pm (UTC)I've read some of the Dominionist literature, and that is how they are going about it- they call it the 'one bite at a time' approach. If there's evil in the world, it's people like these. The only way to fight it is to spit out the bites, fill in the holes, and uproot the seedlings. Push back.
Sunfell
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Date: 2004-12-10 08:19 pm (UTC)I am tempted to let them have thier Utopia, save that they wish to force me to reside in it, and we might get to those laws which need to be torn down.
TK
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Date: 2004-12-10 08:25 pm (UTC)I feel the same way about this fake-Utopia they want to create: leave me out of it.
Sunfell