http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/05/02/grey-ghosts/ A Discussion of Politics, Religion, Business, Science, Technology and Life - Comments Encouraged! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/05/02/grey-ghosts/#comment-1883 Tom’s Big Picture » Blog Archive » Grey Ghosts- Intermission for a Moral Defense of the South Tue, 08 May 2007 20:39:47 +0000 http://www.tomsbigpicture.com/2007/04/24/grey-ghosts/#comment-1883 [...] Here, as promised in my first post about the War Between the States and its implications, is presented a PDF of Robert L. Dabney’s A Defense of Virginia and the South. Both as a debater and a Christian, I hesitate to even attempt any sort of defense of the Confederacy, when Dabney has done such a wonderful job. He rejects superfluous arguments of both sides, and reduces claims to their moral and Scriptural essentials. Most startling is his claim that a verse in one of the epistles to Timothy makes no sense unless we see it as a Providential warning against the coming of the Abolitionists and other Equalitarian zealots. You’ll have to read to find out more. [...] [...] Here, as promised in my first post about the War Between the States and its implications, is presented a PDF of Robert L. Dabney’s A Defense of Virginia and the South. Both as a debater and a Christian, I hesitate to even attempt any sort of defense of the Confederacy, when Dabney has done such a wonderful job. He rejects superfluous arguments of both sides, and reduces claims to their moral and Scriptural essentials. Most startling is his claim that a verse in one of the epistles to Timothy makes no sense unless we see it as a Providential warning against the coming of the Abolitionists and other Equalitarian zealots. You’ll have to read to find out more. [...]

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