William Cowper Brann Quotes

Barton and some other Christian Fundamentalists did not believe that a prayer should be offered by a religion that was not monotheistic. Some actually disrupted the Senate prayer in protest. See {583752}.

He was particularly distressed that Jefferson did not believe in the Biblical narrative of Noah and the Flood. Actually, this was the only Presidential race in American History where BOTH candidates, Adams and Jefferson, were not orthodox Christians and BOTH rejected literal interpretation of the Bible and even questioned the Trinity. Adams religious views were not as public as Jefferson’s and so many who voted against Jefferson because he was not a literal follower of the Bible, did not realize that Adams also was not and like Jefferson regarded the Trinity and the deification of Jesus as naive belief of unthinking people.

In Helms bizarre view, the University of North Carolina which had desegregated and had Black students and faculty was communist. In the beginning of the Cold War, the Communists of the world frequently attacked the United States for its Racial Segregation and Discrimination before the Civil Rights Bill was passed. It was one of the great shames and weaknesses of America as slavery had been earlier. Southern racists then conflated the civil rights issue and Communism. Since all communists seemed opposed to segregation, then it followed, they erroneously reasoned, that all opponents of segregation were communists. See {622174} for another of Helms vicious smears using this twisted logic.

Welch was a conspiracy theorist paranoid and gave the legitimate conservatives of the time a bad name. The quotation was in the first version of the book, and then it was removed.

Duchess of Bedford. In 1853, during a visit to England, Harriet Beecher Stowe was presented with a petition containing the signatures of over a half million British women asking for an end to American Slavery. It was in 26 bound volumes. The backing of the prestigious Duchess and so many other English women had a profound effect on American Women and the growing strength of the Abolition movement.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

In most countries those who identify with the economic views of Mises also tend to be strong supporters of orthodox religion—usually Christianity. American conservative Republicans are typical. However they rarely are aware of views and quotations of their intellectual guru that are evidenced by this quote. See {632408} for another quotation that distressed many European conservative devotees of Mises.

Throughout the history of American Slavery, the Southern apologists for slavery have accused abolitionists and anyone opposed to slavery of being Communists, Atheists, or any other group that was generally unpopular in the day. This is one of the early instances where that heinous practice was started. However it continued and became especially virulent, in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s where anyone who opposed segregation was accused by Southern Segregationists of being Communists and Atheists as well as other unpleasant epithets. Most religious Americans opposed slavery in the 1850s but there are some in the South, like this Preacher, who seemed totally ignorant of the strong pro abolitionist views of the many religious leader abolitionists in the North and a few in the South.

This quotation illustrates the extreme paranoia and irrationality of many of the ultra-conservative, right wing extremists of the day. It also has three of the classic ultra right wing conspiracy scenarios that are still claimed by the most extreme rightists: American leaders are giving U. S. Sovereignty to the United Nations; Many American leaders are anti-Christian and appoint more; civil rights is a communist idea and civil right demonstrations (riots) are inspired and/or controlled by communists.

See {589333} for a similar theme of God vis a vis man.

This quotation illustrates a peculiar situation with regard to President Barack Obama. Among some subgroups of the United States, there are people who hate President Obama. And some of them, throughout his Presidency, has described Obama in these obviously false phrases. They manage to hold these false belief’s despite the fact that the refuting evidence is very easy to find. Obama was a very devout Protestant. And his political world view was not communism or Marxism, but middle of the road. He was not even in the left wing of his Democratic Party. However what De Varona and others with these seemingly absurd views discount the data because it is part of a communist conspiracy to plant false information so they can put their man in the White House.

Two were executed and the others sent to the Gulags. This is often quoted to show how hostile the Soviet Union was to all religions.

He had asked a family friend not to bring books by Hemmingway into his home. The friend asked why and received this answer. Koch and his brother were the largest political contributors in the United States, so they had enormous influence on Republicans (they only made political contributions to conservative organizations).