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To: DManA

Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe... most of the Presidents prior to 1850 owned slaves at one time or another. Were the founding fathers all evil?

“There would never been a war if but for the sin of slavery.”

My question is where you find slavery condemned as sin. Sin in the western world is usually associated with the Christian faith. If you know where it is condemned in the Bible please provide the reference. Surely it is easy enough to find.


63 posted on 08/28/2013 10:46:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Deportation is the law. When it's not enforced you get California)
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To: Pelham
Were the founding fathers all evil?

You keep trotting out that tired old line like as if it had some sort of relevance or cleverness to it. It doesn't. That's known as a non sequitur.

No, the founders weren't evil - but the slavers who attempted to rend our nation and went to war against their neighbors in shameless pursuit of their Peculiar Institution - they were certainly evil. And those who defend them have some evil in them as well.

111 posted on 08/29/2013 12:16:29 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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