[Vision2020] Southern Fantasy: Banning The Bible

[Donovan Arnold]

Michael,
  
 I am curious as to how you  defend the south as the best culture for the time when it banned the  reading of the Bible to millions of slaves.
  
 Certainly you are  aware that southern slave owners and the state legislatures forbid the  learning of reading so they could not communicate with each other and  read the teachings of the Bible and Christ.
  
 As a Christian,  do you not consider the denial of millions of people from reading the  Word of Christ about most evil thing you can do to someone and Christ?
  
  I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the Bible and  Christ would support the culture that banned it as the most pure and  Christian.
  
 As a Christian, I was taught not to idolize any  human civilization but instead to try and follow Christ. The way to  live is the way Christ taught us, not the way the Romans, Egyptians,  Greeks, Southerns, Northerners, or Norwegians lived. Christ is the only  example that we need, and the only correct one. 
  
  Take Care,
  
-DJA
  
  
Michael <metzler at moscow.com> wrote:                    st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                              Donovan,
     
    Yes,  I don&#8217;t disagree with you.  However, we can still make comparisons  between different times in the history of the world and also between  different people groups living at the same time.  The Apostle Paul  did just this in his letter to Titus, describing the Cretans as  generally lazy brutes.  There is such a thing as cultural and  moral decline, even in a pre-glorified fallen world.
     
    thanks,
    Michael Metzler
     
     
     
     
    Micheal,
  
  "The land was not as filled with idolatry, hatred, bitterness,  disloyalty, adultery, infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism,  immorality, relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety,  and just about any cultural non-good the western world spent 1500 years  enumerating."
  
 Sorry but you will find the overwhelming  majority of historians will disagree with this statement. These things  have been in full force in every human civilization since recorded  history, and probably before. 
  
  The only place where these things to do plague human society is in Heaven.
  
  "idolatry, hatred, bitterness, disloyalty, adultery, infidelity,  dishonor, laziness, paganism, immorality, relativism, general cultural  breakdown, statism, impiety, and just about any c! ultural non-good"  was not invented in the last 150 years in the United    States. 
  
  If you ever talk to people that are 90+ years of age they will tell you  that some things have gotten better, and some things have not, but for  the most part, things are better.
  
  Take Care,
  
  Donovan J Arnold
    
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