tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7582315948931504814..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Republicans, Rednecks and RacismThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-55832898687358403852007-09-26T15:13:00.000-07:002007-09-26T15:13:00.000-07:00To anyone interested in this discussion I'd invite...To anyone interested in this discussion I'd invite you to go to the commentator's website: www.healtheland.wordpress.com. These are a gang of religious extremists. By the way, quit your yoga classes or you're heading straight to hell. They believe that, they really do.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26012226820281996692007-09-26T14:59:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:59:00.000-07:00By the way, as a biblical scholar can you refer me...By the way, as a biblical scholar can you refer me to where to find the scriptural injunction against slavery? I thought there was a passage in the OT specifically prescribing a man's right to kill his slave. Or was I just making that up? <BR/>Your focus is in an argument as to what happened in the 19th Century. Mine is primarily with what is still happening in the 21st and right in the backyard of the Southern Baptist Convention. Lyndon Johnson's civil rights initiative sent white southerners flocking to the arms of the Republicans. What do you make of that? Or is that something contrived?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12464927475264240192007-09-26T14:54:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:54:00.000-07:00Let me guess, are you writing from that bastion of...Let me guess, are you writing from that bastion of evangelical, racial harmony, Bob Jones University? You can't cover this stuff up forever. But you can try.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80563699091931701232007-09-26T14:31:00.000-07:002007-09-26T14:31:00.000-07:00"The history of Christian fundamentalism and racis..."The history of Christian fundamentalism and racism (at least if you think slavery is a form of racism) goes way back." The truth is that the Bible forbids slavery as it was practiced in America, as well as segregation of any sort. Thus, racism and slavery cannot be blamed on fundamentalist Christianity (as there are actually more black, Asian, and Hispanic fundamentalist Christians these days than whites ... something that media types like Chris Hedges strives to make sure that you will never know), but on people that chose to practice a false version of it. What Hedges also almost certainly refused to point out was that liberal Christians were also overwhelmingly in favor of slavery, and those that were not could hardly be called anti - racist. Bes t example: Abraham Lincoln, who wanted to end slavery only because he wanted to FORCIBLY repatriate blacks to Africa, because he felt that the inferior black race would never be able to compete with whites intellectually, economically, socially, etc. and would also be an unending source of social discord and strife. The very notion of equality between blacks and whites, or that there be integration or intermarriage between the two races was extremely offensive to Lincoln, and he spent a great bit of his time telling people so. Realize this: Lincoln actually did start his repatriation program on a voluntary basis. That is how we came to have the African nation of Liberia. But Lincoln was assassinated before it became wide scale and involuntary. <BR/><BR/>If you want to oppose political conservatism in America and elsewhere, that is your business: I am not a political conservative either. But to claim that fundamentalist Christianity promotes racism and slavery - or that any other segment of the American population was any less supporting of slavery and racism - is simply unsupported by both theology and history. It is true that the winners get to write the history books, which is why a person who himself renounced Christianity is permitted to lie about the faith that he left (and American history as well) and still retain his position at the New York Times, but that does not make it true or right.<BR/><BR/>http://healtheland.wordpress.comhealthelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02597322285407724205noreply@blogger.com