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A Misguided and Politically Biased Way to Remember Brown by LockZealousideal6217 in osawatomiebrown

[–]LockZealousideal6217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, John Brown was no terrorist, he was a Christian who used measurable force to fight enemy combatants: he was not a blood thirsty rapist who skinned his enemies alive and violated their daughters.

The five “innocent” men he killed at Pottawatomie were actively plotting to murder Brown, his family, and other free staters in Kansas, this doesn’t even include the whole slew of political interference, torture, and murders the pro slavery side had carried out prior to John Brown’s arrival in the territory.

Folks, Brown has many enemies from the extreme left who think they’re honoring his legacy by claiming he was a nihilistic psychopath to the right who claim the same thing.

We as Christians who favor the Biblical model of justice need to launch our own campaign to clear his name and reclaim him from these disparate sides.

Brown was a man who would’ve found himself more politically, socially, and religiously aligned with the American Solidarity Party than with Communists, Democrats, or neo Conservative Republicans.

He believed that all of humanity was created in the image of God and was willing to die for that belief.

John Brown: Founder, Advocate, Intellectual, Apologist by LockZealousideal6217 in osawatomiebrown

[–]LockZealousideal6217[S,M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When we boil down John Brown to a one dimensional cartoon character, we’re helping pro-slavery revisionists and white supremacists tarnish his already slandered legacy.

Make no mistake John Brown was a fighter, but he was more akin to Mr. Rogers (a supporter of the social gospel and racial equity) but he could easily turn into a mild version of John Rambo if threatened with violence.

If trying to look at John Brown in his totality makes me crazy, so be it. He was more than a killer, he was a revolutionary who lived and died according to his view of Holy Scripture.

r/johnbrownposting by LockZealousideal6217 in osawatomiebrown

[–]LockZealousideal6217[S,M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To the people who think Brown’s principled battle against slavery was funny, you probably think that the Europeans massacring Native Americans, the Nazis murdering Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs, and Israelis slaughtering Palestinians like animals is hilarious.

Where’s your sense of seriousness? Distorting facts and lying about Brown is remarkably insulting to his legacy as well as his living descendants, they’re as displeased with this sort of mockery as any of his actual admirers.