(OK - for everyone who didn't get this the first time. The irony is that if Rev. Wright dared to say something this radical, he would once again be hounded from pillar to post. In fact, it's a quote from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Fuck, it's even carved into stone on the Lincoln Memorial.)
On May 1, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Avery Ray Colter wrote:
>> Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of
>> war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until
>> all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of
>> unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn
>> with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was
>> said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the
>> judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
>
> Why should a leftist find this particularly outrageous, other than
> the fact it is being said in the name of religion?
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