[Vision2020] Re: McBroom on Slavery

[Ted Ryan]

And yet you seem to forget that they also call for slaveries end.  That
paragraph that you quoted is not a praise, it is a description and that
discription is part of a greater context.  As a student at WSU I was taught
to consider all works in their context.  I determined this was a sound
learning tool and imploy it regularly, as I did when reading the booklet.  I
might just have to Google up some of your works and see how much I can pull
out of context.  It can be done with just about any document you see.

Ted Ryan

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> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:15:35 -0700
> From: Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu>
> Subject: [Vision2020] McBroom on Slavery
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
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> Greetings:
>
> Ted Ryan: I don't have to go back into theV2020 archives.  All I have to
do
> is turn to page 24 of "Southern Slavery As It Was" by Wilson and Wilkins
> and read:
>
> "Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship
> with pervasive racial animosity.  Because of its dominantly patriarchal
> character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and
> confidence.  There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed
> with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.  The
> credit for this must go to the predominance of Christianity.  The gospel
> enabled men who were distinct in nearly every way, to live and work
> together, to be friends and often intimates."
>
> Any reader who reads this would obviously think that this is support for
> Southern slavery.  And did the vicious racial animosity just mysteriously
> appear after the Civil War?  Rather absurd proposition, don't you think?
>
> And if Mr. McBroom is still with us, and even if he isn't, I would like to
> quote a passage from his critique of the Southern Baptist Statement of
> Repentance about Southern Slavery:
>
> "The fact that slavery, as an institution, not only is allowed for in the
> Bible but also is mandated by the god of Scripture is certain
> circumstances, sets the Southern Baptist denomination at odds with the
> Bible--therefore at odds with the god who gave the Bible.  To call slavery
> a great evil, as was done, is to proclaim the God who ordained slavery
evil."
>
> You could not get a more pro-slavery statement than that. You will recall
> that McBroom is a deacon in Steve Wilkins' church in Louisiana.  Does
> Wilkins support his deacon's explicit support for slavery? An image of
> McBroom's full statement can be found at
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/transfer/mcbroom_0695.jpg
>
> Nick Gier
>