alt.education

"Joe Irvin" wrote:
>"Bob LeChevalier" wrote in message
>news:r0vur3lbjc36pmiv6md2mnjgepg72herab@4ax.com...
>> "Joe Irvin" wrote:
>>>> Spartacus was a Christian?
>>>
>>>Nope, just a slave uprising like other slave uprisings ... wasn't a
>>>movement to end slavery.
>>
>> Oh, so if slaves do it, it isn't a movement?
>
>Not a philosophical movement that slavery is wrong and it should be
>abolished.

Who gives a damn about philosophy? An anti-slavery movement takes
ACTION.

If you define movements solely in terms of philosophy, then of course
religious groups are behind every thing that everybody ever does. The
boundary between philosophy and religion is quite fuzzy.

>> But of course Wilberforce had little to do with the American anti
>> slavery movement, which was an entirely separate thing.
>
>Yes, but the underlying argument couldn't be refuted.

Arguments are irrelevant. Action is relevant.

lojbab