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To: Thatcherite
Fitzroy was a Christian Fundamentalist who justified slavery on Biblical Authority and believed that Biblical Authority trumped all considerations of reason, morality, or logic.

Something wrong with that? If you think that the Bible outlaws slavery, I would like to know where it says so.

144 posted on 10/08/2005 12:04:49 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: taxesareforever
Something wrong with that? If you think that the Bible outlaws slavery, I would like to know where it says so.

For the moment I'll assume that you are joking, though I am not certain. Problem is, no statement is so wacky that it cannot be asserted in all seriousness by a biblical creationist. At least twice in the last few months I've had Freepers seriously promoting slavery as a palliative for social ills, and as an aid to poor inadequates who lack the moral compass to guide their own lives. Naturally they were able to point at biblical authority to support their views. Oddly enough the Freepers in question saw themselves as the slaveholder, not the slave.

145 posted on 10/08/2005 12:55:39 AM PDT by Thatcherite (More abrasive than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: taxesareforever
Fitzroy was a Christian Fundamentalist who justified slavery on Biblical Authority and believed that Biblical Authority trumped all considerations of reason, morality, or logic.

I just remembered something else that I find interesting about this whole issue. Fitzroy found little support for any of his fundamentalist views amongst the officers of the Beagle. This suggests that amongst educated men even by 1830 it had been realised that Genesis does not stack up as a meaningful historical account, but should be read as an allegory. Fitzroy wasn't a fool though, he and Darwin would avidly read the latest volume of Lyell together as they arrived in the Beagle's ports of call (Darwin was having them shipped out), though Fitzroy must have found Lyell's conclusions utterly unpalatable.

146 posted on 10/08/2005 1:05:32 AM PDT by Thatcherite (More abrasive than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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