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To: Mr. Silverback
“No, actually my degree is in business”

It’s one thing to be a business major, but quite another to claim that gives you some basis for academic standing. There was an old saying in my particular college within my university: “The limit of “major” as GPA->0 is “business”.

“In short, another “oops” for you.”

Not really, no. Not even peer-review, but “journalism” and the local op-ed crank. I really could be more condescending about this, but I think I’ll let it slide for the time being. I would suggest not pushing the “business major” thing as an academic credential. There’s nothing wrong with a degree in business, but it’s most known - particularly at the undergraduate level - as a degree that lets one drink rather heavily....

“Um...so you really don’t get that I was saying both Lincoln and Howe were talking about God’s judgment on the nation for slavery?”

What you don’t get is that Howe and Lincoln were not on the same page. Lincoln viewed this as a stain on the entire country, Howe wanted to destroy the South. Howe was the wife of on of Brown’s backers, after all.

What was God’s judgment for slavery to be on the nation of Israel, by the way? By 1865, Lincoln was suffering from the death and destruction that war had wrought on the union he sought to preserve. That was his goal, by the way. Not the abolition of slavery, although he was personally against it. The actual radical abolitionists like Howe wanted not only slavery eradicated (good) but by massacre (bad). The 1833 Act of Parliament abolishing slavery in the British Empire would have been a better model.

Your side in this brought Lincoln’s address in as evidence for the meaning behind the lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, not I. The two were written by people not political allies and 4 years apart.

“You really don’t get that even after I posted the paragraph where Lincoln talks about God’s wrath being visited on the nation?”

Lincoln wasn’t Howe... and Howe viewed that wrath only applied against half the nation with the armies of the North as some sort of avenging angel. She ignored the culpability for it shared between South and North. Lincoln did not.

“And you’re criticizing my reading skills? Good gravy!”

If this is the extent of your comprehension of this argument, yes, I am.

1,336 posted on 05/31/2007 6:12:30 PM PDT by FredHunter08 (Boycott Illegal-Alien-Pandering Lowes!)
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To: FredHunter08
Your side in this brought Lincoln’s address in as evidence for the meaning behind the lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, not I. The two were written by people not political allies and 4 years apart.

Hey Ferdie, you're a pretty boring guy (obnoxious too) but your writing style is vaguely familiar. What name did you go by previously, or should we just check your cookies?

1,341 posted on 06/01/2007 5:43:40 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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