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Greetings:<br><br>
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: <br><br>
"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."<br><br>
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?<br><br>
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:<br><br>
“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.”<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/transfer/mcbroom_0695.jpg" eudora="autourl">http://www.tomandrodna.com/transfer/mcbroom_0695.jpg</a><br><br>
Nick Gier<br><br>
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