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Hmm... Don't a lot of BJ"U" grads wind up being "God wants me to be rich" types? Guess that whole "don't be greedy thing doesn't get much reinforcement.

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<blockquote>the slavery system sacrificed the rights and responsibilities that God granted to the family</blockquote>

Somehow I can't imagine it's accidental that they avoid saying rights are granted individuals. Would make that whole CDD thing a lot harder to justify, or the attitude that children are possessions their parents have every right to manipulate into their own scheme. But most of all, women don't get rights in this formulation. Because a single mom isn't a <em>real</em> family.

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<i>...developed the patience to wait on the Lord</i>. WTF? When it comes to reparations I say send the offspring of the slave owners back to Africa and I'll suggest Jim DeMint be the first one. On a <i>slave ship</i>, not sucking on a bourbon in first class air.

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Actually, she was a small desktop model with rounded sides....

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"The sin in this case was greed... their love for profit to outweigh their love for their fellow man."

Good to know that all these good christians support increased taxes for greedy billionaires and cutting funding for bombing their fellow man so that all Americans can get adequate healthcare.

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Dude had a gift for saying a lot with a few words.

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Fun fact: The Seven Deadly Sins are not biblical. They were invented by early Christians to scare the piss out of other Christians and are not in the bibble.

This fact is mostly lost on fundamentalist Christians and some Catholics.

I have just put "Make sh!t up and start a religion" on my bucket list. Seems easy enough.

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Can't really criticize slavery when the Bible, which is inerrant, accepts it.

And of course an inerrant text silences all attempts at deconstruction. Sorry, Jacques, Jean, Michel, Julia: you lose. Go back to Europe, you atheist commies.

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OT: Here's the christians and dinosaur thing I was referring to earlier. <a href="http://pbfcomics.com/archiv..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF035-Dinner_Time...">http://pbfcomics.com/archiv...

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Seems like you could use this to argue against capitalism.

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Indeed. Are the canines of Virginia and Georgia considered Southerners?

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<i>In these songs, freedom often referred to the spiritual freedom of life with the Savior. </i> Right. These people have never heard a black chorus sing "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?"

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Frederick Douglass "I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy."

I might go for the bucket.

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More like friendly fire.

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Weren't American slaveholders post enlightenment?

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Try this:<br /><br /><br />♫♯♪We must be merciless with the little men♫♯♪

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