Extenuating Dabney’s racism

The virulent racist R. L. Dabney got a free pass because he was a “brilliant theologian and leader” who was “impacted by the contexts in which [he lived] and [ministered], and in particular, by the controversies that [defined] [his] age” (cf. https://agrammatos.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/augustine-gets-a-pass/). Curt Daniel writes the following concerning Dabney’s virulent racism: “Like many other ‘gentleman [...]

Diablos of the fall

There are many exceedingly wicked preachers and theologians who charge God with sin or wrongdoing: “I do not have an answer to why God would permit Lucifer, an angel, to fall. In other words, how can a perfectly pure being with no evil inclinations, suddenly have an evil inclination? And the answer is: I don’t [...]

R.L. Dabney–Virulent Racist

The following is from R.L. Dabney’s book entitled A Defence of Virginia (And Through Her, of the South) in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party: “It is enough for us to say (what is capable of overwhelming demonstration) that for the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has [...]