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Nov 30, 2004, 3:29:25 PM11/30/04

"My correspondent thinks with Mr. Jefferson, that Jehovah has no
attributes that will harmonize with slavery; and that all men are born
free and equal. Now, I say let him throw away his Bible as Mr.
Jefferson did his and then they will be fit companions. But never
disgrace the Bible by making Mr. Jefferson its expounder, nor Mr.
Jefferson by deriving his sentiments from it. Mr. Jefferson did not
bow to the authority of the Bible, and on this subject I do not bow to
him."
[Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, D.D., in "Scriptural View of Slavery," a
work showing that the Bible sanctions slavery, from John E. Remsburg,
"Six Historic Americans. Chapter 2: Thomas Jefferson"]
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_2.html

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy
Scriptures, both by precept and example."
[Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina]

"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many
regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral."
[Rev. Alexander Campbell]

"The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of
property in slaves."
[Rev. E.D. Simms, professor, Randolph-Macon College]

"I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
to hold the slave in bondage."
[Rev. Thomas Witherspoon, Presbyterian, of Alabama]

"In another area of human rights, many Christian clergymen advocated
slavery. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book 'Pro-Slavery' that
ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in
America.' He lists 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove
that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals."
[James A. Haught, 'Holy Horrors']
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0879755784/

"The delegates of the annual conference are decidedly opposed to
modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention
to interfere in the civil and political relation between master and
slave in the slave-holding states of the union."
[Methodist Episcopal Church, Statement of the General Conference,
Cincinnati, May 1836]

Slavery, segregation and the Bible
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8&selm=36717622.38996%40news.ala.net
http://www.dovelink.com/News/archives/Feb1999/Feb161999.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_slav.htm
http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/inter.html
http://www.multiracial.com/projects/hallofshame.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar3.htm
http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/add_site.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/Slavery/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Subject/Slavery/Atlantic_Slave_Trade/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Slavery/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Segregation/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Lynching/

Slavery
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=nw

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Slavery&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Slavery&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Lynching
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=nw

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lynching&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Lynching&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Segregation
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=nw

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Segregation&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Segregation&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Jim Crow
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Jim+Crow%22&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Jim+Crow%22&sa=N&tab=nw

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Jim+Crow%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Jim%20Crow&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Hitler and 1,700 years of Christian anti-semitism
http://cnn.co.uk/WORLD/9803/16/vatican.holocaust/index.html
http://www.hearnow.org/caljp.html

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html

http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Holocaust%2C%20Jewish%20%281939-1945%29/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Jews/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Holocaust/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Christianity%20and%20antisemitism/

Murder of Hypatia and the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3398585849d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0304170002.4cb6569b%40posting.google.com

and thread

Constantine et al
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5195/index.html

Crusades
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0404030203.14292c6a%40posting.google.com

http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Europe/Arts_and_Humanities/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/Middle_Ages/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Crusades/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Medieval/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Middle%20Ages/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Medieval%20World%20History%20%28Circa%20450%20-%20Circa%201450%29/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Inquisition/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Church%20History%20-%20Catholic/

Inquisition
http://news.google.com/news?q=Inquisition&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?q=Inquisition&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Inquisition&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Black Death
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0405160055.1db22703%40posting.google.com

http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Europe/Arts_and_Humanities/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/Renaissance/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Black%20death/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Civilization%2C%20Medieval/
A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345349571/
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0405161250.49645a7d%40posting.google.com

Renaissance
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0402080219.7e0badf0%40posting.google.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Renaissance/

Reformation
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0311010316.416ba81e%40posting.google.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Reformation/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Middle%20Ages%2C%20600-1500/

Persecution of Galileo
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl1524199464d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0301131102.5c43b02e%40posting.google.com

and thread

Murder of Giordano Bruno
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0304260339.4b7c9073%40posting.google.com

Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini tortured and burnt alive
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0304260340.3b8163da%40posting.google.com

Criminal activities by various Popes

Treaty of Tordesillas
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Treaty+of+Tordesillas%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Treaty+of+Tordesillas%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Treaty%20of%20Tordesillas&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

and thread

The Age of Enlightenment
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0303220055.4687c084%40posting.google.com

and thread
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html
http://tlc.ai.org/enlight.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Enlightenment/

Salem Witch trials
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/Colonial_America/Salem_Witch_Trials/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Trials%20%28Witchcraft%29/

Witch burnings
http://www.silvermoon.net/catala/burning/times.htm
http://www.celticcrow.com/basics/burning.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Witchcraft/
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=488923691

The Protestant inquisition
http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ247.HTM

Religious hate
http://www.religioustolerance.org/negative.htm
The "Burning Times Award"
http://www.religioustolerance.org/burn_awd.htm
Religiously-based civil unrest and warfare
http://www.religioustolerance.org/curr_war.htm
Cults
http://www.religioustolerance.org/cultmenu.htm
Hot religious topics
http://www.religioustolerance.org/conflict.htm
Other Important Essays
http://www.religioustolerance.org/other_es.htm

Ibn Rochd (Averroes)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0207252311.41dbb29a%40posting.google.com

and thread

Expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=78

Scientists flee from Hitler's Germany
http://forums.about.com/ab-atheism2/messages/?msg=116

Evolution of Religion
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Cullen.html
http://www.godpart.com/

Jacob Bronowski
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jacob+Bronowski%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jacob+Bronowski%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Jacob%20Bronowski&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Jacob%20Bronowski%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn

Christian atrocities
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=qdqf0t02745107tjbct3na2j6rec92cl18%404ax.com

--
"It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into
numbers. That is false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is
the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where
people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes
of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done
by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge,
with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do
when they aspire to the knowledge of gods (374)."
http://skepdic.com/science.html

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