Re: Social Darwinism; was: So Long Judge Moore, We'll Miss You

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:29:31 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maff)
wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:40:54 +0000 (UTC), Arne Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >ambrose searle wrote:
>>  snip
>> >
>> >Though I think the claim was rhetorical, where did you get the idea that 
>> >maff said the fundamentalists turned Darwin into a racist?
>> >
>> 
>> Where he got all his other ideas; he made it up.
>

>So the Civil War was all made up?

Perhaps you misread who I was referring to?   It was Ambrose Searle's
comment and not anything you said.  If anything he posted is true, it
is purely accidental.


And no I do not thing the Civil War was made up.  I don't even
understand why you would ask.  




>
>"My correspondent thinks with Mr. Jefferson, that Jehovah has no
>attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born
>free and equal.  Now, I say let him throw away his Bible as Mr.
>Jefferson did his and then they will be fit companions.  But never
>disgrace the Bible by making Mr. Jefferson its expounder, nor Mr.
>Jefferson by deriving his sentiments from it.  Mr. Jefferson did not
>bow to the authority of the Bible, and on this subject I do not bow to
>him."
>
>[Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, D.D., in "Scriptural View of Slavery," a
>work showing that the Bible sanctions slavery, from John E. Remsburg,
>"Six Historic Americans. Chapter 2: Thomas Jefferson"]
>http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_2.html
>
>"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy
>Scriptures, both by precept and example."
>[Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina]
>
>"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many
>regulating it.  It is not then, we conclude, immoral."
>[Rev. Alexander Campbell]
>
>"The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of
>property in slaves."
>[Rev. E.D. Simms, professor, Randolph-Macon College]
>
>"I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
>to hold the slave in bondage."
>[Rev. Thomas Witherspoon, Presbyterian, of Alabama]
>
>"In another area of human rights, many Christian clergymen advocated
>slavery. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book 'Pro-Slavery' that
>ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in
>America.'  He lists 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove
>that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals."
>[James A. Haught, 'Holy Horrors']
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879755784/
>
>"The delegates of the annual conference are decidedly opposed to
>modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention
>to interfere in the civil and political relation between master and
>slave in the slave-holding states of the union."
>[Methodist Episcopal Church, Statement of the General Conference,
>Cincinnati, May 1836]
>
>Slavery, segregation and the Bible
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=36717622.38996%40news.ala.net
>http://www.dovelink.com/News/archives/Feb1999/Feb161999.htm
>http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_slav.htm
>http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/inter.html 
>http://www.multiracial.com/projects/hallofshame.html 
>http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar3.htm 
>http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/add_site.html
>http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/Slavery/
>http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Slavery/Atlantic_Slave_Trade/
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Slavery/
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Segregation/
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Lynching/
>
>Slavery
>http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=gn
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=nw
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Slavery&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
>
>Lynching
>http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=gn
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=nw
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Lynching&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
>
>Segregation
>http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=gn
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=nw
>
>http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Segregation&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
>
>> 
>> 
>> None of the Emperor's clothes had been so successful before.
>> "But he has got nothing on," said a little child.

None of the Emperor's clothes had been so successful before.
"But he has got nothing on," said a little child.