To be fair (and when a rightwing presidential candidate wants to revive slavery, we must be meticulously open-minded), the plucky Jihadist for Jesus only endorses slavery for nonchristians or “pagans,” as his guru, David Barton delicately calls those people. Barton is the Christian dominionist and Tea Party swengali that Huckabee recently insisted every American should be forced to listen to “ forced, at the point of gun” (Huckabee’s words, not mine).
Apparently noticing that he unintentionally said this out-loud in public, Huckabee later tried to make his death threat to the American people disappear, but to no avail: the Left-Wing Noise Machine caught him in the act before the Tea Party’s Falwellian Ministry of Truth could edit his comments. See Pointofagungate here.
http://leftwingnoisemachine.com/...
Who is Barton, you ask? Barton runs a lucrative family cottage industry (from Texas of course) writing revisionist histories of the US ingeniously designed to prove once for all that we are indeed a Christian Nation™ -- a fact that the liberal media is keeping from us. While no normal person reads his oeuvre of sanctimony (regrettably I had to), this makes him a darling of Michele Bachmann, the newly godly Gingrich, and the aforementioned Glock-toting Huckabee, all of whom spoke at Barton’s recent Rediscover God In America fest. Barton’s ineptly named organization, WallBuilders (which is intended to break down the wall between church and state, go figure) engages in a kaleidoscopic mix of crank exegesis, conspiracy theory, and pseudohistory, which all bubbles to the surface at a website that bruits the very message that Huckabee insists we must attend to or risk suffering a head wound.
Also, as his photo from his website proves, he is arguably the worse dressed Christian Dominionist on the planet. And that’s saying a lot.
In one breathless article apparently intended to redeem the Founders from the (liberal latte-sipping) slander that their acceptance of slavery was unchristian, WallBuilders archly notes that God is hip with slavery, so long as it involves “pagans.” And who could be more pagan than Africans? WallBuilders joyfully implies. Thus concludes the message that Huckabee would shoot you for:
“Examination of the Biblical view of slavery enables us to more effectively address the assertion that slavery was America's original sin. In light of the Scriptures we cannot say that slavery, in a broad and general sense, is sin.”
I’m glad that’s cleared up. Some Americans were actually getting the crazy idea that the Southern slave-owners were the bad guys. We can only wait with bated breath for the next new level of weirdness to radiate out of the Tea Party Occupation Forces as they boldly lead America forward to the glory days before 1861.
WallBuilder's "To Die For" Message, here:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/...