jakelafort

It may be instructive albeit anecdotal that some of the Europeans who were captured and enslaved by native north american tribes chose to remain instead of return which suggests that slavery grew into assimilation. Not certain but think the practice of scalping was taught by the French to the natives.

Unquestionably there was a…[Read more]

Davis, am going on memory but Comanche, Apache and some other southwest plains indians had slavery (also cannibalism) and Iroquois in Northeast had slavery that predated Europeans’ entry on the scene.

But the Quakers weren’t fakers no matter what Nixon was fixin.

All jerkin around aside it is sick how Christianity infected the mindset of the conquistadors, explorers and slavers et al. Manifest destiny perhaps captures some of the flavor of both the superior power and the i dont give a rat’s cock about you. As a Christian i am entitled and as…[Read more]

Yeah i have no clue what percentage were abolitionists but am guessing it was 5 or so. Fewer? With such a horrific albeit peculiar institution ya gotta conclude the zeitgeist was solidly pro slavery. And what does that say about human nature? Perhaps if civilization somehow survives our era will be looked at askance for having so little…[Read more]

Indigenous Americans may feel a little overlooked in that assessment, Unseen.

But it makes me ponder the issue of moral relativism. Do we forgive the contemporaries of the age on the basis of being the same as every other asshole?

I like the idea of leaving the statues but including a real narrative in re to the person and the period.

First i heard of Berlinski. Don’t need to hear/read him again. That is just sophistry and a recapitulation of creationism’s BS. More and more fossils are being discovered to fill in those wished for gaps. Query how amazing it is that fossils from 10s, 100s of thousands of years and millions of years are preserved and located when every year new…[Read more]

“I wont think for myself because my parents don’t, my friends don’t and the church tells me to have faith.” Therefore i am convinced of virgin birth and original sin.

Ivy, churches were way ahead of this pandemic in indicating how absolutely and utterly stupid people are. But not all of em…

Theists are deaf, dumb and blind to discovering through investigation that their mythology is only mythology. Where are the experiments to discover the soul, heaven, and hell?

Imagine one’s world view being aesthetic, primitive, ritualistic, formulaic, devoid of evidence while promising immortality and yet contentedly going about without a care…[Read more]

Thinking is the devil’s whore. I made a bet. I made a score. They pulled the lever. Then pulled it more.

Jody, my favorite WV churches are opening this month. Charles Town and Mountaineer race track. No audience though and protocols to mitigate likelihood of transmission.

Perhaps this pandemic will furnish the impetus to finally eliminate the tax status of churches. Churches are a clear and present danger. Stopping myself right here…dumb thoughts…

Robert that was AoKay. Reminds me of Mark Twain.

There are a great many dumb mutha fuckers here in the good ole USA. Smart fuckers here also. Lets give credit where it is owed. Start with religion. Churches, mutha fuckin every goddamn town like virus generators, ready-willing and able to infect the young impressionable mind and leave an indelible mind-fuck. The mind fucked are less educated,…[Read more]