I so love my Fundamentalist brethern!

School defends slavery booklet
Critic says text is 'window dressing'
By T. Keung-Hui, December 12, 2004, Raleigh News & Observer

Students at one of the area's largest Christian schools are reading a controversial booklet that critics say whitewashes Southern slavery with its view that slaves lived "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures."

Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.

Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.

Here are some excerpts from the booklet cited in the Observer article:

* "As we have already mentioned, the 'peculiar institution' of slavery was not perfect or sinless, but the reality was a far cry from the horrific descriptions given to us in modern histories.” (page 22)

* "Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.” (page 25)

* "Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence.” (page 30)

Well darn, who woulda thunk it?

Those slaves were living the life of Riley all along. I bet they’re still pissed the Yankees went to war to free them (among other reasons). You do have to love those good Christian fundamentalist values though. Don’t you?

What’s next for these fundies, Holocaust denial?