re: Chuck Colson: "Two hundred years ago this week, the British Parliament outlawed the slave trade throughout the British Empire. /This hard-fought battle is beautifully told in the new film Amazing Grace. I watched a preview with President Bush at the White House this week, which was appropriate, seeing that this president has successfully fought against slavery in Sudan... / The movie, which opens this Friday, is sensational. See it, be inspired, and you will learn one of the most important lessons of politics: If you hope to overthrow a great social evil—one to which people have become accustomed—it’s crucial that you take the incremental approach. /It’s a strategy the Great Abolitionist learned early on. When Wilberforce began his battle in 1787, slavery was both accepted and highly profitable. The slaves lived and died in the Caribbean, far from English eyes..."...
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You know what's odd? The ads for Amazing Grace leave me really angry. I feel like a society that embraces abortion has got a lot of d***ed gall pretending that they would have stood with somebody like Wilberforce. They'd have been backing the slavers 100%, calling for Wilberforce to be sold into slavery himself, etc.
I remind myself that the fact that people are learning about him is a good thing, but all the same it makes me angry that the same moral imbeciles who think shredding babies is a good and beautiful thing actually think they'd have had the moral insight to realize slavery was wrong ahead of everybody else.
Just my gut reaction.
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