[PatrickHenry]

It looks like Douglas picked and choosed what passages in the Bible he chose to believe.

Many people do, and I suppose they would all deny it. Everyone has what he truly believes is the one true way to understand scripture. In any event, Douglas won the election. His opinions were apparently widly held. As I said, racism didn't begin with Darwin. You really ought to drop that argument.

[bondserv]

I readily admit there have been abuses meted out by so-called Christians throughout history. The Middle Ages are evidence of an illiterate body of believers run amok, brought on by the deliberate attempts by those in power to keep the population ignorant. Any and all of those infractions were as a result of there misconstruing straightforward direction laid out in the context of the passages of scripture. The reason our constitution outshines any former attempt at governance is because a majority of the formers were literate, God honoring Christians.

It is quite clear from the writings of the founders that many of them struggled with the practice of slavery. There were also some who justified slavery because the Bible spoke in terms of master and slave. However, a contextual reading of the passages reveals that God endorsed servants, as in workers who worked and lived with their boss.

A Bondservant was a servant that when his or her tenure of service had been completed was free to leave, but instead chose to continue in the service of their boss (master). They would put a large earring in their ear to symbolize their commitment to the house of their boss.

Unfortunately, many southern Christians chose to sinfully equate their own practice of slavery with the indentured version endorsed in scripture. Their materialistic desire to prosper put them at odds with Christ's straightforward message. This debate was ongoing in the American church during the two hundred years leading up to the emancipation.

In the end, and with much damage done to the testimony of Christians, and dehumanizing of the slaves in America, the country got it right. As you may note many Christians are hesitant to criticize the Presidents desire to welcome immigrants as freely as our economic stability will allow. However, the Bible reveals it is critical for those immigrants to assimilate to our morals, laws and language in order to facilitate the stability in absorbing new hard working individuals into our society.

These principals for right thinking are clearly taught in the pages of the Holy Bible. As our nation, via science or via the overlawyering that Jesus attacked so adamantly in the 1st century Jewish nation will fall just as all other great societies of the past.

Even though mankind is going to twist off into blatant rebellion against God in the end, it would be prudent for us as a nation to get back to the foundation of what made this country the greatest in history, for our children’s sake.