The book further purports to "explode" the theory of Evolution, using the revealed truth in the Bible, and uses that argument to maintain that human beings were created in the image of God while the Negroes were to be ruled over and dominated by the superior white race.
It is an incredibly ugly piece of "literature" which illustrates how incredibly far we have come in the last hundred plus years since its creation.
If you can stomach it the entire book can be viewed here.
However I would caution you against it until you have something besides coffee in your system. The term stomach churning barely does this vile piece of crap justice.
/snort
ReplyDeleteChildren of Ham, hmmm?
I don't suppose anyone knows what Creation Museum founder Ken Ham thinks about the Children of Ham being beasts?
I am surprised that book hasn't been reprinted as a textbook for christian home schoolers.
ReplyDeleteAmazing isn't it? This early justification for subjecting black people to slavery and treating them as animals to be feared and loathed seems to be
ReplyDeleteon an equal plane with what Faux News now does corporately.
Religious justifications for hate and dehumanizing continues swinging along too for some so called"christians". . .
A Devill he was. Blacke within and full of rancour. But white without and skinned over with hypocrisie.
ReplyDelete--Thomas Adams, The White Devill (1614)
When I read something as hateful, prejudiced, ignorant, and unscientific as this book, it reminds me of reading the Q'uran or the bible.
ReplyDeleteMythology, religious nonsense, violence, and superstition based on human ignorance and bigotry.
Have to share this though (and I'mfar from an optimist)
DeleteOne of my younger relatives put up a facebook post today, ridiculing and outraged t the pastafarian student in Texas who won the right to wear a colander on his head as a symbol of his religion (after all, yarmulkes and hijabs you know). he was all "Christians have to hide.....!!!!!" One poster and this is of her friends, agreed with her, the rest dissed her pretty bad for her imagined persecution. YES!!! There is hope we will someday be a secular nation again.
This piece of crap must be required reading for all "conservatives" In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, the gop seems to honestly believe that our President is inferior to them. Even their dimest bulb, $carah, feels that SHE is better than the President. Anyone with a working brain can see that is not true, by any stretch of the imagination. Truly disgusting.
ReplyDeleteAnd here is MORE vileness in the works:
ReplyDeleteBehold: The ‘Impeachment Store’ That Sells All Things Impeachment
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/08/impeachment_store_wnd.php?ref=fpa
Intern who saved Giffords life faces homophobic recall campaign
ReplyDeleteDaniel Hernandez Jr., the former intern credited with helping to save Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ life when she was shot in 2011 and now an elected member of a Tucson-area school board, is facing a nasty recall election in which anonymous opponents are attacking him for being openly gay and for his advocacy on behalf of gun violence prevention.
The story behind the recall is the kind of byzantine saga found only in local politics. Four of the five members of the Sunnyside Unified School District, which includes parts of Tucson and surrounding areas, are now facing recall petitions - two members who faced recall for their support of an embattled schools superintendent turned around and filed recall petitions on two members who opposed the superintendent, including Hernandez.
But the tactics being used against Hernandez are unusual. A source in the district sends us two flyers that Hernandez’s opponents are reportedly handing out to parents dropping their children off at schools in the district. Right Wing Watch repeatedly tried to contact Marcos Castro, the manager of the effort to recall Hernandez and brother in law of school board president Louie Gonzalez, to discover whether the flyers came from his campaign, but Castro refused to take our calls. [UPDATE: Castro tells us that he himself got one of the flyers left at his house but he has “no knowledge” of where they came from.]
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/300785_Intern_who_saved_Giffords_life
ReplyDeleteA vile, disgusting thing happened on Fox News that will make you scream for eye and ear bleach
There is no lower level one could sink than the depths Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham sank to while attacking speakers at the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I have a Dream Speech.”
Purely for dramatic purposes, at one point Ingraham used the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). A state trooper fractured Lewis’s head on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, AL, in 1965.
That is a well known fact.
Ingraham used the speech’s anniversary to race-bait about black-on-white crime statistics and hosted Pat Buchanan to bemoan the idea that minorities face any higher level of adversity in America 50 years later, Media Matters reports.
Isn’t that special? She had racist Pat Buchanan on the show to demonize the speakers on the anniversary of MLK’s amazing speech.
Watch courtesy of Media Matters:
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/08/27/a-vile-disgusting-thing-happened-on-fox-news-that-will-make-you-scream-for-eye-and-ear-bleach/
OMG that was disgusting.
ReplyDeleteNothing that man or white man does makes me believe we can evolve. We have choice. And these vile men chose to twist scripture to turn them into superior men closer to God than any other race.
The story goes that Noah, after the flood, settled where the ark settled and his 3 sons and their wives resettled near Asia and Middle East, Europe and Africa, one being Ham, where some scholars conclude Hamites in the bible, came from the African continent and are the descendents of Ham. It appears disgusting writer in the book was trying to disprove that African slaves and all black Africans were indeed from Ham. It appears they thought that colored Africans were not even from the line of Noah, therefore weren't human, or weren't the creation of man by God, or created in God's image (Genesis writes that all man was created in God's image).
So, these heretical miscreants believed that they could mistreat these people like beasts or creatures and they didn't feel convicted that they were doing wrong.
It's unbelievable that those who have no fear of reproach can try to justify to make themselves better than others and behave like they are little gods of the earth. This is why I personally believe in God, and that anything that He had to do in the Old Testament in order to kick some dust, was what we secretively like to hear. When men are so cruel and vile, something or Someone has to take charge and punish. If there is no order, we would all likewise perish. Jesus, however, came to redeem souls so that souls would live eternally in His care, away away from nasty evil people. The battle in men's minds is about choice and those slave-masters didn't want any part of the Son of God's plan although they had themselves in denial, feeling justified not by grace, but by empowerment.
Men who feel superior to other men, based on looks, fortunes, inheritances, power, military prowess, color, of course don't seek the redeeming nature of Christ, because they want to rule. I weep at how the African-Americans and Native Americans and others must feel at this point, after having been through their personal horrid experience, and still, experiencing it to this day.
1849 pretty much explains it. I'm sure there are other "books" that were published. "Scholarly" works of the time.
DeleteWhat is equally telling is that this book was reprinted in 1900.
I'm sure if we dig, we can find equally offensive material being published by vanity presses for special organizations and groups (if you know what I mean) even now.
But I'm sure they're more subtle and are not illustrated. Too bad, since their audiences are more on the level of picture book consumers than having to read words and process them. The one syllable, lip moving crowd of mouth breathers and knuckle draggers.
These days the "Men who feel superior to other men, based on looks, fortunes, inheritances, power, military prowess, color, of course don't seek the redeeming nature of Christ," because they think they and ONLY they are already redeemed by virute of being men, white, rich, powerful, Evangelical and Republican and it sucks to be you.
It's even worse than you think. This book was PUBLISHED in 1900; the author was BORN in 1849. I thought the illustration of the "image of God" white fellow was styled more like the Gay Nineties than Antebellum fashion. And of course the Negro was dressed as a minstrel.
ReplyDeleteBy 1900, many of the civil rights granted to black men were systematically revoked under the guise of Jim Crow. So this garbage was still in popular culture long after the Civil War ended.
disgusting.
ReplyDeleteThe blacks are depicted as simian.
Sadly, there are still people who feel this way and that is tragic.
This stuff if horrid. I had no idea there were things like this in print!
ReplyDeleteJust want to say that I have some wonderful black friends and I don't even see their color when we are together.
They are kinder and nicer than many of the white folks we are currently watching in the Republican party - especially in D.C./Congress!
The Fox News Audience Continues To Display Its Blatant, Frothing Racism
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=10444
Wasn't Ham one of Noah's sons?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't "Jesus" actually have had darker skin and dark eyes? If they want to take this bullshit to it's next logical conclusion, people with the wrong eye color or hair color could be made in God's image.
ReplyDeleteAs absurdly disgusting this "book" was, why is it that interracial couples can reproduce? Aren't the hybrids in nature the most beautiful specimens?
This is why some people are pushing for creationism, they want to "take back the country" to what this book professes.