John Calvin was a freedom fighting rebel?Nope it's you. Britain and the Catholic church were the oppressors.
The protestants were the freedom fight g rebels.
Well of course! Haven't you been listening? Religion is always used to justify whatever position you take. God is always on both sides.Yes a radical group of liberal under the name of Christian Abolitionism - Wikipedia!
Didn't the southern slaveholders turn to Christianity to support the southern cause? Wasn't the biblical propriety of slavery preached from every southern pulpit?
I'm not saying the slaveholders were the only ones defending slavery. What percentage of Lee's army do you think owned slaves?Incorrect, only a very small number of folks in the south owned slaves 3-5%. So for you today say they represent all of Christianity is false. Let alone the majority of Christian's opposed slaver
Slavery and a repressive, hierarchical society were the status quo. It's the status quo that conservatives defend. It's change they fear and oppose. To put it in a modern context, the southern working class was opposing their own interests.
No true libertarians, eh?Not all Libertarians are anarchist. (We don't really talk to them if we don't have too, bunch of whack-O's).
An anarchist p00phole indeed though.
You're either for co-operation or competition; family values or exploitation; democracy or aristocracy.
Was America founded to protect the privileged and let the "undeserving poor" starve?
Aren't we all supposed to be working for the common good?