VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Rev Canon Dr Alan Billings, an Anglican priest in Sheffield |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130121.html][img=images/2013/01/pic130121.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]President Obama gets inaugurated for the second time today. In reality he was [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21115349]inaugurated for the second time yesterday[/url], so today will really be his second, second inauguration.

He'll put his hand on two copies of the Big Book of Magic Stuff. It was of course the Big Book of Magic Stuff that did [url=http://www.evilbible.com/Slavery.htm]so much to free the slaves[/url]. Those who wanted to free the slaves were all Christians. They quoted the Big Book of Magic Stuff with its unambiguous message of equality for all. 

The evil slave owners, on the other hand, were all... err... whatevers, who quoted the Big... err... book...

Even after Lincoln freed the slaves, while quoting the Big Book of Magic Stuff, there were still people who treated African Americans badly. They were mostly from the southern states. None of them were Christians and none of them quoted the Big Book of Magic Stuff.

Then there was that awful Enlightenment (Boo! Hiss!), with it's talk of progress and rationality (Hiss! Boo!). It claimed there could even be moral progress, where minorities, like women, would be treated fairly and equally. This happened especially in Europe where they stopped quoting the Big Book of Magic Stuff. Meanwhile, in America, Martin Luther King came along, quoting the Big Book of Magic Stuff and demanding civil rights.

Eventually, people quoting the Big Book of Magic Stuff triumphed over the evil people who didn't quote the Big Book of Magic Stuff. Lincoln, King and Obama, quoting the Big Book of Magic Stuff, had won. The supreme morality of the Big Book of Magic Stuff had proved itself once again.

And that is Christian History.

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