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Duggared: The Moral Implosion of the Christian Right
There was a time when child molestation was considered a sin by conservative Christians and there was a time when multiple criminal acts of a sexual nature committed against children would have been...
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The Duggars & the Danger of Absolutism
“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic...
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Lincoln and the Importance of Civilian Leadership
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I am posting another section of the first chapter of my Gettysburg text tonight. It is about the importance of civilian leadership in regard to the military and the...
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ISIL, the Caliphate and Manifest Destiny: Two sides of the Same Coin
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today another section of my Gettysburg Staff Ride text, taken from the second introductory chapter which deals with how religion and ideology plays a huge role in...
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Saturday Musings: The Same Mistakes
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Not much to write tonight, mainly because I have been avoiding the heat and humidity here in the Virginia Tidewater by doing little but staying inside and working on my...
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Fiery Trials: Emancipation & Equality Today
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Just a coupled of thoughts on this Sunday night. Like yesterday I have been spending a lot of time on my Civil War-Gettysburg Staff Ride text. I have been working on...
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Dred Scott & Obergfell v. Hodges
ROGER B. TANEY (1777-1864).Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, handing down his decision on the Dred Scott case, 1857. American illustration. Friends of Padre Steve’s World Court...
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God’s Not Quite Chosen People: The Confederate Union of Church and State
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Unlike many areas of study, history never goes out of date. While I do not think that history necessarily repeats itself, I do believe that essentially humans never real...
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Christian Abolitionists: The Spirit of the Gospel
Friends of Padre Steve’s World The past few days I have written a number of articles dealing with how Southern Christians used faith to justify slavery. I have also written about how many American...
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The Bible on Our Side: Southern Religious Support of Slavery
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This week I have been relating religion to civil rights through the lens of the slavery, abolition, and the ante-bellum United States and today I will continue that with...
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Call it Terrorism: Massacre at Emmanuel AME
“You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” Dylann Storm Roof Last night a young man who the Charleston Police have identified as Dylann Storm Roof, walked into the...
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When Ideology Kills Kindness: Dylann Roof at Emmanuel AME
Dylann Storm Roof has confessed to the terrorist action committed against the people of Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina. He went to the church with the intent...
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The History Of JUNETEENTH
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World, This is the first of a couple of blogs written by men that I correspond with and who are kind enough to share my work on their sites. Juneteenth is a day that...
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The Pope’s moral crusade: Climate change is abolitionism of the 21st century.
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the second of the articles written by other bloggers that I am posting today. In fact for me this is very unusual as I can count on one hand the number...
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Silence and Shame after Charleston
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I have been amazed over the past couple of days following the terrorist attack committed by Dylann Roof on the pastor and parishioners of Emmanuel African Methodist...
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Freedom for the Few: the Curse of Racism
Friends of Padre Steve’s World I have been posting portions of my Civil War and Gettysburg Staff Ride text and in light of the act of terrorism committed in Charleston last Wednesday and the...
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Slavery, Economics & Politics: The Compromise of 1850
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have been sharing parts of my Civil War and Gettysburg Staff Ride text here for some time. We often don’t like to admit it but all to often racism and other forms of...
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Time for It to Come Down
It has been 150 years since the revolt of the Confederate States of America officially ended. However, the flag of that revolt still flies over on the grounds of the South Carolina capitol, remains...
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Regulars, Volunteers and Conscripts: Civil War Mobilization
Friends of Padre Steve’s World A bit of a break from the past few days of confronting the civil rights issues and racism at work in the aftermath of the Emmanuel A.M.E. church massacre. I’m sure that I...
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Patrick Cleburne & Failed Confederate Emancipation
Friends of Padre Steve’s World In light of some of the historical revisionism of parts of the Confederate heritage movement which claim that many blacks fought for the Confederacy. The fact is that...
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