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Know your enemy. Christianists are the root of all evil. Arch drug warriors.
War mongers and code-word racists. Armageddonists
who want a greater Israel (at Palestinian expense) so that God can fullfill
"prophecy," commence World War 3 Armageddon, and kill all those unbelieving
Jews. And everyone else who isn't Christianist and taken up by The Rapture. Just
a regurgitated KKK of pseudo-Christians.

 

 

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(UPDATED) Racism alive and well in a N. Carolina school by Plutonium Page Thu
Dec 9th, 2004 at 14:18:31 PDT

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with
pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it
was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food,
clothes, and good medical care.

 

Quiz:
Those are passages from:
a. a book used in a Southern school in 1950
b. a book to be used in a Southern school in 2004

If you answered "a", you're wrong.

More below the fold.

 

Update [2004-12-10 4:9:11 by Plutonium Page]: Right on! E-mail does work.
They've decided not to use the pamphlet. Here's the press release (pdf).

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The passages I posted are from a booklet entitled 'Southern Slavery, As It Was'.

The booklet is to be used as part of the curriculum at Cary Christian School in
Cary, North Carolina.
School defends slavery booklet
Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using
"Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical
justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as
people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to
different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is
used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South
and explore what the Bible says about slavery.
"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern
perspective," he said.
The booklet isn't the only connection its two co-authors have with the school.
One of the authors, Douglas Wilson, a pastor in Moscow, Idaho, wrote a book on
classical education upon which the school bases its philosophy. Wilson's
Association of Classical and Christian Schools accredited Cary Christian, and he
is scheduled to speak at the school's graduation in May.

And the book's other author?
The booklet's other author, Steve Wilkins, is a member of the board of directors
of the Alabama-based League of the South. That is classified as a "hate group"
by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights group.
"Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins have essentially constructed the ruling theology
of the neo-Confederate movement," said Mark Potok, editor of the Southern
Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report.
Potok said people who argue that the South should secede again have latched onto
the writings of Wilson and Wilkins, which portray the Confederacy as the last
true Christian civilization.

I'm sure this isn't the only proud dad who thinks it's great:
Marcus Ranch, who has three daughters at Cary Christian, said he has no problem
with the school using the booklet. He said it offers an accurate portrayal that
is overlooked of how many slaves were treated kindly by their owners.
"That book is fine," Ranch said. "It does a good job with that particular
perspective."

 

When do the kids get their white hoods?

 

 

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Taliban on the Palouse?
A religious empire based in Idaho is part of the far-right theological movement
fueling neo-Confederate groups
By Mark Potok

 

Some 350 students and others protested against Doug Wilson's 'Revolution &
Modernity' conference at the University of Idaho this February.
(Rajah Bose)

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The fliers showed up one day last fall, scattered around the
sprawling campus of the University of Idaho at Moscow and looking for all the
world like a routine advertisement for a couple of visiting scholars.
"Meet the Authors!" the one-page announcements shouted, referring readers to an
upcoming February conference on campus that would be featuring speakers Douglas
Wilson and Steven Wilkins, the co-authors of Southern Slavery, As It Was. There
followed five excerpted "highlights" from their book.
"Slavery as it existed in the South ... was a relationship based upon mutual
affection and confidence," the excerpts read in part. "There has never been a
multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in
the history of the world. ...
"Slave life was to them [slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food,
clothes, and good medical care."
This flier was no advertisement. It was a call to arms.
In the months that followed, sparked by the fliers anonymously distributed by
antiracist activists, an uproar erupted that convulsed the campus, the town, and
even the community around Washington State University, another huge school some
eight miles away in Pullman, Wash.
Before it was over, the presidents of both universities had condemned Wilson and
Wilkins' book in unsparing terms, dozens of newspaper articles, editorials,
advertisements and letters to the editor had been printed, major demonstrations
had been held, new antiracist groups had formed, and a whole array of
counter-events had been organized for the Wilson/Wilkins event.
Few who lived on the Palouse, as the region is known, avoided the boiling
controversy.
The reason for the powerful reaction wasn't just that the two men had written a
repulsive apologia for slavery and the antebellum South. More important was the
fact that one of them, Doug Wilson, had been in Moscow for 30 years.
And during those three decades, largely beneath the radar of his neighbors,
Wilson had built a far-flung, far-right religious empire that included a
college, an array of lower schools, an entire denomination of churches, and
more.
At the same time, with longtime collaborator Wilkins, Wilson was developing a
theology that married an enthusiastic endorsement of the antebellum South with
ideas of religious government — an ideology now at the center of the
neo-Confederate movement.
Doug Wilson, it seems, was raising a religious army.
Back to the Future
The racism and sorry scholarship that informed Southern Slavery, As It Was — and
that set off the recent hullabaloo in Idaho — did not spring full-blown from the
minds of Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins. In fact, these ideas were born long
before.
During the 1960s, as part of a backlash against the civil rights movement, a
theologian named Gregg Singer rediscovered the work of Robert L. Dabney, the
chaplain to Civil War Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Soon, he was joined by
another far-right theologian, Rousas John Rushdoony, who also came across
Dabney, a man who had spent the 30 years after the Civil War popularizing the
idea that the "godly" South had been victimized by godless Yankees.
Both Singer and Rushdoony admired Dabney's ideas, which included a view of the
South as a religiously ordered society, an "orthodox" Christian remnant in a
nation increasingly overtaken by rationalist and anti-religious thought.
Dabney's virulent racism — he saw blacks as a "morally inferior race," a
"sordid, alien taint" marked by "lying, theft, drunkenness, laziness, waste" —
also supported Rushdoony's dislike for the civil rights movement and ongoing
desegregation. Dabney explicitly defended slavery as godly, a theme Wilson and
Wilkins would later repeat.
In 1973, Rushdoony published Institutes of Biblical Law, a book that established
him as the founding thinker of a radical theology that came to be known as
Christian Reconstruction.
The book fleshed out Rushdoony's vision of a society "reconstructed" along Old
Testament lines — a world in which religious governors would mete out biblical
punishments like the stoning to death of gays, adulteresses, "incorrigible"
children and many others. Relying on a literal reading of the Bible, Rushdoony
espoused a society of classes with differing rights, opposed interracial
marriage, and scoffed at egalitarianism.
Even Ralph Reed, then the highly conservative executive director of the
Christian Coalition, warned that Christian Reconstruction represented a threat
to the "most basic liberties ... of a free society."
Rushdoony also developed a strategic plan. The most effective way of
implementing his vision, he said, would be to develop Christian homeschooling
and private schools in order to train up a generation to take the reins of
society. So vigorous was his pursuit of this strategy that Rushdoony would
eventually come to be known to many as the father of the Christian homeschooling
movement.
It was an exciting time for Rushdoony. Some of his principal co-religionists and
followers became active in the 1970s, and his influence began to extend to some
of America's leading evangelical churches.
And it marked the start of an important collaboration between people who viewed
themselves as "orthodox Christians" and "Confederate nationalists," a merging of
the theocratic idea of religious government and a view of the 19th-century
Confederate cause as fundamentally right.

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