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YES--We all feel better now== if he means it.
From they current prospective he means it... today we are aware that the ownership of another human is wrong; go back 140+ years and a significant proportion of the population thought it just fine.Historical empathy means we need to consider what the cultural norm was at the time and place we are considering. Can you dig it? If not the folks we study always are on the filthy end of the stick.
This just in--the Governor of Virginia blinked!Now states: slavery existed and was wrong
Now don't we all feel better?
....Just like the Kennewick Man: even if found on Native-american lands, these remains are not automatically linked to them, unless proven by datation or cultural link in this case. http://www.nps.gov/nagpra/
Seems logical, I agree.
willy, I'm not sure what you want here but the items that I listed are the talking points that I used when demonstrating the connection of the J-D tradition and the roots of American democracy… the influences of said J-D tradition. Not talking about paragons of anything, just influences.As far as the image issue, I gave the waffle view (I personally don't know what Big G had in mind either....); hard to say if it was that we look like Him or that we look like He wanted us to look) and better minds than we are still at odds over this, eh?
Not so much Judeo-Christian law as tradition… equality in the eye of God (ergo gov't as well)… the Divine Spark (we are all created in His image or in His image, depending on your school of thought)… and while Judaism is rather clannish at times, generally the J-D tradition is based on outreach to the unconverted (ala Lady Liberty and the open door to all, or most-all these days ::))How's that?
...--we need to invent new monsters and perhaps we already have--terrorists, immigrants and fiscally imprudent people.
Far too true; all counts.
If all signers were Christians of one stripe or another--how is this explained? Expediency, lies,big change it attitude between Declaration of Independence and a Federalist government?What is the Conservative view--I am confused. See below:....
Separation of Church and State... just the POV of this conservative.
Wally: Fear not--the worst that could happen is to be loved to death.
Not the loved part that worries me.
Squirt guns? Uzi, Mac11--with silencer and Heckler and Koch assault rifle. Date? Not sure.Actually you are fairly close--How did you do this--do you know these girls? They are office secretarieswho used to participate in our machine gun festival every spring. They served coffee and doughnuts and loaded magazines. and provided moral support for the guys!
Hmmm... bureaucrats with black guns; gives one pause to reflect....
...word "mash" is somehow related, but it is too early to think about looking it up.....
Do you mean "mast"... the edible vegatative or reproductive part produced by woody species of plants, i.e. trees and shrubs, that wildlife species and some domestic animals consume.[from Wikipedia]
