re: #96 windsagio

Heh thats a subject maybe we shoudln’t get started on, I’m a little regionalist (just between you and me :P)

Well that may be fair, but I will simply say it and have done with.

The Confederacy’s discussion of State’s rights was smoke and mirrors for the “right” to brutally enslave, abuse, degrade and murder other human beings for profit. At the time of the revolution, the South was the wealthiest part of America, they could have led the way in industrialization. They chose not to.

Slave states always stagnate. If you have slaves to chase mice, you have no need for a better mousetrap.

Of course, Southerners are human too - even they saw the misery their system created and perpetuated. But being the all too human, rather than doing the right thing upon that realization, they found ways to justify it. So slaves become breeding stock and animals, not even people. They developed a twisted perversion of Christianity in which God himself sanctioned this evil.

After all, once you are the elect going to heaven, then what does it matter what you do to those who are not? And I know that Calvinism was not born in the American South, but a Calvinism that sanctioned the brutal enslavement of others certainly was - as were interpretations of Genesis that black people were destined by God to be slaves because they came from the wrong post flood lineage.

So I will just say it. The GOP is the inheritor of the most odious aspects and darkest threads of the American psyche, and for all of their bible banging they should read the bits of it where God gets cranky at abusing His name for the sake of evil.

In fact, I will go even further as a religious man. The South learned full well in 185 what God thinks of such folks who so abuse his Name.