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.
[VadeRetro] 375 was absolutely positively definitely yours and contained your initial position statement on slavery as preserved in quotes elsewhere before your post was deleted.
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To: Thatcherite
My position on slavery? I don't consider it is wrong to have slaves.
375 posted on 10/08/2005 5:49:05 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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taxesareforever can't deny the accuracy of this post (I did a cut and paste at the time 'cuz I couldn't believe it). The most he can do now is to disavow it. We're all waiting.