[Vision2020] Teabaggers

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Thursday 11 March 2010 07:37:16 keely emerinemix wrote:
> That George and Thomas are numbered among anti-slavery
> abolitionists, as appears to be the contention here, is as
> ludicrous as it is offensive.  They may not have been the
> absolutely worst slaveholders ever, but I don't think either man's
> biographies are testimonies to their egalitarian, Christian,
> progressive morals.

Retrospective application of our generation's morals and ethics to 
their generation does neither generation any favors or good.

Characterizing either Washington or Jefferson as Christian may be more 
an exercise in wishful thinking than in recognizing their behaviors. 
Both men studied the belief systems of their days, with results that 
are probably better reported by considering Washington as a Deist and 
Jefferson as a Freethinker.

Many of us still have much to learn from both of them. Read on.


Ken