Point of order. Post #375 wasn't mine. Mine about slavery was not removed.
375 was absolutely positively definitely yours and contained your initial position statement on slavery as preserved in quotes elsewhere before your post was deleted.
As to your "free discussion" point, you can have free speech and use it to do a bad thing. Elenil dodged the issue by waving around a Gould quote saying that, post 1859, biological justifications for slavery increased. (Well, we WERE heading into a Civil War here just then.)
Gould implies that that was a bad thing. Elenil's point in quoting Gould would seem to be that it was Darwin's fault that this bad thing happened, so we Darwinists are just as bad as you, or something like that. But I disagree. I'm not doing what you're doing and neither are any of the other evos. I don't agree with you on this so I'm not just as bad as you.
Furthermore, elenil doesn't have the integrity to say that it's bad when you do it, and you're the only one doing it. You're "witnessing" by attacking evolution and upholding the Bible, you see. It's only bad if I have no problem with slavery because I'm not covered by your blanket exemption.
I have a problem with all of this.
Point of order: Taxesareforever is an utterly shameless liar.
Prediction: Not creationist one will call him on his lie. "Witnessing for the Lord" always gets a free pass, no matter how many lies you tell.
Looking back through the thread I found this interesting exchange between SmartCitizen and TaxesAreForever:
[SmartCitizen] Don't argue with these God-hating liars. They claim that evolution has nothing to do with belief in God, then they proceed to bash Christianity in the very same thread. They never miss the opportunity. Don't cast your pearls to swine.
[TaxesAreForever] You do have a point.
Now, by this point in the thread it was clear to all but the most dimwitted that TaxesAreForever approves of slavery on Biblical Authority, though at that stage he hadn't quite dared to come out and say it plainly. That drunken admission came later. SmartCitizen meanwhile was foaming at the mouth at the temerity that anyone should ask the question. But I cannot find anywhere where SmartCitizen unequivocally condemns slavery; indeed he was one of the "if only we could call it something else" pleaders. Looking at Smart and Taxes stroking each others fevered brows I guess we can draw our own conclusions about where Smart's sympathies lie. I read into post #320 a concern that Taxes was about to let the cat out of the bag and a desperate shushing.
I'm not pinging SmartCitizen on this, though I don't care if he reads it. It may be rude of me, but it is a lot less rude than the personal and unpleasant attacks he has made against me both in public and private mails. He has clearly stated that he wants nothing more to do with the thread, and that is fine with me.
Point of order -- it most certainly WAS your post. I saw it before the moderators removed it due its disgusting nature. It read, in full and I quote you verbatim:
My position on slavery? I don't consider it is wrong to have slaves.Those are your words, that was your post #375.
Of course it was. Responding to 375 gives:
[In a shaded box] In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Evolution and intelligent design Life is a cup of tea , taxesareforever wrote:
[In the posting itself.] My position on slavery? I don't consider it is wrong to have slaves.
Who else do you allow to use your posting privileges?