Do you hear it? Is it just my imagination? Whenever I hear somebody saying something to the effect that slavery was "not so bad," or "beneficial for the slaves," or even "the slaves liked it," I hear murmuring deep in the speaker's throat the next statement wanting desperately to explode out, "SO LET'S BRING SLAVERY BACK!"
Plus jamais. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who deny history WANT to repeat it.
We don't need more "Jesus" a fabrication of what someone deems as their own person private interpretation. We need sanity, reason, empathy, love, compassion, science and critical thinking. That's what we need. Religion, especially of this sort only produces bigots and anti-intellectuals, anti-science, anti-reason, illogical meanderings of people who have this cultist mindset to evangelize and foist to the world by hook or by crook this insane uneducated and childish hateful mindset like a parasite to a host. Hopefully there will always be pushback, a reasoned response that will always fight against this kind of religious bedlam.
"That was a wise pastor that warned his flock [that January 6 was a trap"].
It certainly netted a fair number of Christians engaging in open insurrection against the government of the United States. One might even refer to them as religious terrorists.
This fool clearly expects his putrid religiosity to be deferred to at all times and never challenged. Thus, he can make up a history that serves to confirm his biases, and largely gets away with it. There is no horror that cannot be justified in the name of religion, and this is a great example of it.
And yet ANOTHER day that ends in "Y." It's become eminently clear that people like Keller will say ANYTHING to try to justify their positions, and if their statements don't align with fact or history, that's just a trivial inconvenience. Then, too, the people he's preaching to would treat history as a succession of inconvenient facts, up to and possibly including the shibboleth about the South rising again.
These are people who insist on living in what appears to be a very well reinforced bubble ... which makes me wonder and worry about what happens when said bubble inevitably BREAKS.
This was pretty much my history courses at Baptist elementary in the 80's.
Black people, for the most part, didn't exist at all in the history books. But slavery was seen as mostly benevolent and something Black people should be grateful for since it brought them to America and introduced them to Jesus.
And the same motherfuckers are trying to push the same lies again so racism and white supremacy will endure for another generation.
Let's never forget that after slavery, it was "good" Christians like the preacher here who would gather into mobs and lynch and dismember innocent Black people, take body parts as souvenirs, then go home, change into their Sunday best, and show up to sing praises to the Lord the following morning.
It was "good" Christian people who stood outside of schools and screamed hate and profanity at a little girl trying to get an education.
It was "good" Christian people who stood with assault rifles opposing BLM protests.
"You are the sons of those who murdered the prophets... yet you say, If we had lived in our father's days we would not have acted like them. Yet you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of murderers. Fill up then the measure of your guilt that the blood of every prophet from Abel to Zachariah might be accounted to you..."
The title makes the point about the racist asshole being Josh Duggar's FIL. Would we have even heard of this if he wasn't? How many times is this said that we don't hear about.
200+ years ago some folks living in a colony, under a King, decided to protest…
Folks who benefit from the status quo always preach against protest. Which really means the protests are making a difference. Not that I support the Jan. 6th riots, they were insurrection and really a giant temper tantrum (seriously, flinging poo is not a protest) that was intended to be violent and bloody. However, protests are as American as apple pie and baseball. More so.
CHRISTIANS: "Why do people hate us so?"
This is one reason right here, cristers.
Suuure, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman loved being slaves. Actually they even helped recruiting more slaves for the pro slavery states 🙄
"what “wicked ways” were the enslaved people turning from"
Believing they were humans and had rights ?
Do you hear it? Is it just my imagination? Whenever I hear somebody saying something to the effect that slavery was "not so bad," or "beneficial for the slaves," or even "the slaves liked it," I hear murmuring deep in the speaker's throat the next statement wanting desperately to explode out, "SO LET'S BRING SLAVERY BACK!"
Plus jamais. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who deny history WANT to repeat it.
"Maybe there's a place for protests. I don't know."
It's in the Constitution, so there's that.
We don't need more "Jesus" a fabrication of what someone deems as their own person private interpretation. We need sanity, reason, empathy, love, compassion, science and critical thinking. That's what we need. Religion, especially of this sort only produces bigots and anti-intellectuals, anti-science, anti-reason, illogical meanderings of people who have this cultist mindset to evangelize and foist to the world by hook or by crook this insane uneducated and childish hateful mindset like a parasite to a host. Hopefully there will always be pushback, a reasoned response that will always fight against this kind of religious bedlam.
"That was a wise pastor that warned his flock [that January 6 was a trap"].
It certainly netted a fair number of Christians engaging in open insurrection against the government of the United States. One might even refer to them as religious terrorists.
He said the "white" part of White Christian Nationalism out loud.
This fool clearly expects his putrid religiosity to be deferred to at all times and never challenged. Thus, he can make up a history that serves to confirm his biases, and largely gets away with it. There is no horror that cannot be justified in the name of religion, and this is a great example of it.
𝑀𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐾𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦.
And yet ANOTHER day that ends in "Y." It's become eminently clear that people like Keller will say ANYTHING to try to justify their positions, and if their statements don't align with fact or history, that's just a trivial inconvenience. Then, too, the people he's preaching to would treat history as a succession of inconvenient facts, up to and possibly including the shibboleth about the South rising again.
These are people who insist on living in what appears to be a very well reinforced bubble ... which makes me wonder and worry about what happens when said bubble inevitably BREAKS.
"𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘵, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴." - 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔
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This was pretty much my history courses at Baptist elementary in the 80's.
Black people, for the most part, didn't exist at all in the history books. But slavery was seen as mostly benevolent and something Black people should be grateful for since it brought them to America and introduced them to Jesus.
And the same motherfuckers are trying to push the same lies again so racism and white supremacy will endure for another generation.
Let's never forget that after slavery, it was "good" Christians like the preacher here who would gather into mobs and lynch and dismember innocent Black people, take body parts as souvenirs, then go home, change into their Sunday best, and show up to sing praises to the Lord the following morning.
It was "good" Christian people who stood outside of schools and screamed hate and profanity at a little girl trying to get an education.
It was "good" Christian people who stood with assault rifles opposing BLM protests.
"You are the sons of those who murdered the prophets... yet you say, If we had lived in our father's days we would not have acted like them. Yet you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of murderers. Fill up then the measure of your guilt that the blood of every prophet from Abel to Zachariah might be accounted to you..."
There's no difference between willful ignorance and malice, and there's no one more willfully ignorant than christians.
“ Also, who says “the Blacks”?!”
That would be the Racists.
The title makes the point about the racist asshole being Josh Duggar's FIL. Would we have even heard of this if he wasn't? How many times is this said that we don't hear about.
Gothard's legacy strikes again.
You’re being kind when you say this is Christian ignorance.
200+ years ago some folks living in a colony, under a King, decided to protest…
Folks who benefit from the status quo always preach against protest. Which really means the protests are making a difference. Not that I support the Jan. 6th riots, they were insurrection and really a giant temper tantrum (seriously, flinging poo is not a protest) that was intended to be violent and bloody. However, protests are as American as apple pie and baseball. More so.