Daniel Kleven

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best, yea, the only tolerable relation”
― Robert Lewis Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South

“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible for a black man to teach and rule white Christians to edification.”
― Robert Lewis Dabney, Discussions - Vol 2: Evangelical

“Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope.”
― Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope

“Conflating prosperity with providence and opting for acquisitiveness as the lesser of two evils until greed was rechristened as benign self-interest, modern Christians have in effect been engaged in a centuries-long attempt to prove Jesus wrong. “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” Yes we can. Or so most participants in world history’s most insatiably consumerist society, the United States, continue implicitly to claim through their actions, considering the number of self-identified American Christians in the early twenty-first century who seem bent on acquiring ever more and better stuff, including those who espouse the “prosperity Gospel” within American religious hyperpluralism.190 Tocqueville’s summary description of Americans in the early 1830s has proven a prophetic understatement: “people want to do as well as possible in this world without giving up their chances in the next.”
― Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society