The river is okay. It's the shithole it flows through that is the problem.

(January 8, 2015 at 6:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The river is okay. It's the shithole it flows through that is the problem.

Well, you shouldn't have been that greedy then to claim everything for the Union. Texas was a rather late addition too.

(January 8, 2015 at 6:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(January 8, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Strider Wrote:

Coincidentally, those same kinds of baseless accusations you spoke of are exactly why I want to move away from Mississippi. I hate this place.

Mississippi is worse than Tennessee...by a little.

(January 7, 2015 at 11:55 pm)Lek Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 11:49 pm)Strider Wrote: Lek, don't you think a website named Reasons to Believe might be just a bit biased? A site such as that could never be objective in its reasoning. They have a clear motive and it is to cast as favorable a light on Christianity as possible.

That means that if a person is a christian he is unqualified to write on the subject? Should I only seek out non-christians for opinions about the bible and slavery?

Yes.

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(January 7, 2015 at 11:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You think that was a good job? Anything in particular? My favorite "The institution of slavery was so deeply rooted in ancient culture that it could not be dismantled overnight. "...lol, yeah, some god/religion/unique ethical message we've got there. Illiterates from Indiana with no superpowers whatsoever did a better job in a few years with their own blood than your god could manage with all his power and all his followers and all of their religious beliefs in the previous thousands of years.

And whose fault might it be that on the watch of a god who knows all and can do all, "institution of slavery" became "so deeply rooted in ancient culture that it could not be dismantled overnight"?

(January 8, 2015 at 6:32 pm)Chuck Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 11:55 pm)Lek Wrote: That means that if a person is a christian he is unqualified to write on the subject? Should I only seek out non-christians for opinions about the bible and slavery?

Yes.

Yes... ^

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Post slavery era - Enough said.
Not to piss on some what open wounds because there is still animosity.
Its just that do not act like Christianity is all good because its just not because well there is still some what slavery of different kinds.. hell i can pull one up. If most blacks knew why they were christian or why they are praising a god that let their ancestors be slaves. High chances are they would hate god for fact and verbatim. I know black atheists they agree with me on this and they tried talking to their family but just like every other thing they just like god loves us though and won't hear it.

(January 8, 2015 at 6:24 pm)abaris Wrote:

(January 8, 2015 at 6:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The river is okay. It's the shithole it flows through that is the problem.

Well, you shouldn't have been that greedy then to claim everything for the Union. Texas was a rather late addition too.

Um, Texas came to us.

(January 8, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Um, Texas came to us.

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

We should have given them back to Mexico.

(January 8, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(January 8, 2015 at 6:24 pm)abaris Wrote: Well, you shouldn't have been that greedy then to claim everything for the Union. Texas was a rather late addition too.

Um, Texas came to us.

Pretty sure Americans moved to Texas and brought us into the Union.

And took loyalty oaths to Mexico and agreed to become catholic when they got there.

They may have been full of shit but when they rebelled they WERE Mexicans.