{"id":57671,"date":"2022-02-19T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=57671"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:10:16","slug":"feb-19-flashback-oney-judge-vs-david-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2022\/02\/19\/feb-19-flashback-oney-judge-vs-david-barton\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 19 Flashback: Oney Judge vs. David Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, \u201cso-called Web logs, or \u2018blogs\u2019 \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From February 19, 2014, \u201cThe 1847 letter that tells you everything you need to know about white evangelicals in 2014<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rev. Benjamin Chase interviewed Judge Staines in 1847<\/a>\u00a0and wrote about her for\u00a0The Liberator,<\/em> William Lloyd Garrison\u2019s abolitionist newspaper. Here\u2019s a short excerpt from Chase\u2019s article. This was written as an indictment of white evangelicals in 1847, but it still tells you everything you need to know about white evangelicals in 2014:<\/p>\n

She says that she never received the least mental or moral instruction, of any kind, while she remained in Washington\u2019s family. But, after she came to Portsmouth, she learned to read; and when Elias Smith first preached in Portsmouth, she professes to have been converted to Christianity.<\/p>\n

She, and the woman with whom she lives, (who is nearly of her age,) appear to be, and have the reputation of being imbued with the real spirit of Christianity. She says that the stories told of Washington\u2019s piety and prayers, so far as she ever saw or heard while she was his slave,\u00a0have no foundation. Card-playing and wine-drinking were the business at his parties, and he had more of such company Sundays than on any other day. I do not mention this as showing, in my estimation, his anti-Christian character, so much as the bare fact of being a slaveholder, and not a hundredth part so much as trying to kidnap this woman; but, in the minds of the community, it will weigh infinitely more.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbare fact of being a slaveholder\u201d isn\u2019t evidence of an \u201canti-Christian character.\u201d But \u201ccard-playing and wine-drinking \u2026 weigh infinitely more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, \u201cso-called Web logs, or \u2018blogs\u2019 \u2026\u201d From February 19, 2014, \u201cThe 1847 letter that tells you everything you need to know about white evangelicals in 2014\u201c: The\u00a0Rev. Benjamin Chase interviewed Judge Staines in 1847\u00a0and wrote about her for\u00a0The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison\u2019s abolitionist newspaper. Here\u2019s a short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nFeb. 19 Flashback: Oney Judge vs. David Barton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When this blog started, newspapers were still writing, "so-called Web logs, or 'blogs' ..." 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