David Barton wants the US to return to slavery.

[Archae]

Glenn Beck's and Mike Huckabee's favorite "Christian nation" pseudo-historian wants a return to "Biblical slavery." :grr:

Website of Huckabee's American History 'Expert' Suggests "Biblical slavery" For Non-Christians

Bruce Wilson
Thu Apr 07, 2011 at 04:22:37 PM EST

On April 6, 2011 Jon Stewart questioned presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee about David Barton. Stewart missed a few things. For example, Barton's Wallbuilders web site has for almost a decade featured an article, by a member of Barton's Wallbuilders board of directors, that seems to endorse "Biblical slavery" for pagans and other miscreants, and favorably cites the work of a theologian who claimed the accepted Holocaust death toll was wildly inflated. The article has been on Barton's Wallbuilders web site since 2003.
Mike Huckabee is so enthusiastic about the teaching of Wallbuilders head Barton that at the March 2011 Rediscover God In America conference Huckabee stated that he wishes all Americans could be forcibly indoctrinated, at gunpoint no less, with Barton's version of American history. As Huckabee told conference attendees,

"I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced-forced at gunpoint no less-to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it. I wish it'd happen."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/7/162237/4554/war_on_public_education/Website_of_Huckabee_s_American_History_Expert_Suggests_Biblical_slavery_For_Non_Christians

[Newest Reality]

1. Anybody here who is shocked at this

missed the memo.

You are only seeing the preamble to where this is going. Sit back and imagine your very worst nightmares about where we might go in the most shocking ways and then be prepared to be surprised. It continues unabated, and many of us had a good idea where it could end up. It may just end-up there with extras if we can't get up the guts to oppose and turn it around. What I mean is a strong resolution by each of us to start thinking deeply and carefully about what we value and what it means to us.

We can continue to take this as a game or a show that we watch like consumers and participate in as players, or we can start to reevaluate just how serious our fates and conditions are right now. What is at stake is what is most important. Either this is merely about business as usual and pendulum and political tides shifting or it is about something far more reaching, deep and meaningful than anything we have collectively experienced in our lives.

Without any implicit gravity concerning our situation and what it portends, then we all might as well find any way we can to mentally, physically or spiritually escape the consequences of a class war and its revolutionary assault on our entire lives. It is in your face and now unavoidable, no matter how hard you might like to evade the bell that tolls.

[Ramulux]

3. A lot of people just dont grasp the importance of politics

They treat it like a game, like a spectator sport, where you root for one team but have no real physical investment in the outcome.

This is why I refuse to pretend like Obama has been a good president. This country is in deep, deep shit and its only gonna get worse unless we radically change course and change the way people look at the world. Obama's pragmatic bullshit simply is not what this country needs right now. We have huge unemployment rates, huge poverty rates, lack of access to basic health care. We need a political party that legitimately exists to serve the people.

The modern day democratic party inspires no one because there is no agenda, there are no principles, and the political theory which should dictate the actions of this party(liberalism) is shunned by many within the party. The democrats need to make a choice, we can have a big tent that pleases no one or a smaller tent that truly pleases those that exist within it. The republicans understand this, they understand that politics is about more than governing, its about ideology, its about convictions, its about philosophy, its about setting an agenda.

As liberals and as progressives we cannot become complacent about the creeping corporatism within the democratic party, we must fight against it as much as we fight against republicans.

[Scuba]

4. + 1,000

[eilen]

6. NR, your words are very insightful.

I have seen the place where this is going-- corporate colonialism.

[notesdev]

2. We're already there

here though we enslave through debt, not chains... makes the slaves much more willing to work, and they even get to imagine they benefit from the deal.

[ejpoeta]

5. how would they feel if we went back to a slavery system, only it would be those who want it

like these clowns who would be the slaves. would they support that?

[eilen]

7. The problem with outright slavery is

the fear of violent insurrection. Fire burns everyone.

[hobbit709]

8. That's why slaves were forbidden to read and write.

They didn't want them to have the ability to communicate with others.