Devout Christian? Conservative? Just as Osama bin Laden and Sadaam Hussein are devout right?
He just believed slavery was an abomination and used pretty extreme tactics to see it abolished.
Despite the fact that neither God nor Jesus Christ condemned it, or listed it in any one of the ten "Commandments" (breaking one of those condemned one to an eternal hell absent God's forgiveness).
Extreme tactics? Like murder, butchering 5 innocent civilians in Kansas; theft, robbery, mutilation, armed insurrection, and treason?
I am anti-slavery, anti-abortion, but that goes not grant me the right to kill anyone because of it. John Brown wasn't a madman, he was lucid, an archetypical Jim Jones.
How many times do I have to tell you-I do NOT condone what Brown did in Kansas?
But I DO like how he took blacks up to his farm in New York,taught them skills and let them live like one of his family.
Brown was an anomaly for his time.Not a saint by any means but a righteous sinner,if I may use that term.
No way to compare him with Jim Jones and Alqueida!
After the armory was raided, Brown was unconscious (Stuart believed he was pretending to be dead), Stuart was the first to expose his identity. Later in the day, Lee asked Stuart to led some into Maryland to confiscate 1500 pikes that Brown had stashed.
The next day, Brown was questioned by Henry A. Wise and others. Stuart was there and asked Brown that after all the killings, burnings, and theft he had committed in Kansas if he did not believe the teachings of the Bible.