(July 27, 2017 at 10:30 am)Brian37 Wrote:(July 27, 2017 at 10:22 am)Astonished Wrote: It's hard to take it seriously from a guy who owned slaves (and illegitimately fathered children with at least one of them). Hardly makes sense for him to re-write the story of Jeebus as a moral teacher when his own morals are so fucked-up.
Nobody is or should justify his ownership of slaves. But it still remains that it was a far different time back then. And many of the founders back then wanted to end slavery at the signing of the Constitution, but could not gain the full support. Slavery however had ended in the North for the most part by the time he died.
I would not scrap the constitution because of the bad things the founders were still doing at the time. That same constitution was written in such a way for future generations to use free speech, protest and courts to gain rights. Even with that inability to end it at the signing of the Constitution, I do think they had the foresight knowing it could eventually be used to expand rights.
No it is not a perfect history one bit. Our country has lots of horrible things in it's history sure. But the concept of checks and balances and the ability to appeal to government is what also brought us progress.
The constitution wasn't made up in the stone-age and based on pure bullshit. Bad analogy.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
