link the comments have more takes from the "historian"
maybe its the effects of white boy summer :thinkin-lenin:
also john brown didnt go far enough :john-brown:
link the comments have more takes from the "historian"
maybe its the effects of white boy summer :thinkin-lenin:
also john brown didnt go far enough :john-brown:
I generally don't like people invoking the name of God to justify murder, because usually it's targeting sex-workers or just women in general or mixed-race couples. Here, however, I am completely fine and even have scriptural backing to support his claim.
Yeah, exactly. The difference between John Brown's brand of "god told me to murder" is that it was "God told me to free the oppressed, and if you are going to prevent me from doing that, I will kill the fuck out of you and God is gonna back me up here."
Whereas from your typical religious extremist its more like "god said wear this piece of clothing, don't eat a particular plant, and you can't say his actual name and if you do any of those things i will kill the fuck out of you."
One of these things is demonstrably good and cool. The other, not so much.
There's also a whole book of the Bible mostly about God telling a man to kill some slavers, and then the man goes and kills some slavers.
Which one, I forgot.
Exodus. That's the one where Moses liberates the Tribes of Israel from Egypt by releasing the Ten Plagues on them.
Doesn't exactly narrow it down, honestly. Moses actually started his religious leader career by killing 2 slavers and hiding their bodies.