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Evangelicals often buttress their preachments with the phrase "the Bible says ..." and see no need for further evidence. But Henry, who holds doctorates in both theology and philosophy, knows that modern intellectuals need to be persuaded concerning biblical authority. For two centuries, he writes, "divine revelation has been stretched into everything, stripped into nothing...
...agrees with the Sociobiology Study Group that "Wilson joins the long parade of biological determinists whose work has served to buttress the institutions of their society by exonerating them from responsibility for social problems." CAR has further declared, however, that Sociobiology is dangerously racist. Although Wilson has nothing explicitly to say about race in his book, consider for a moment what a sociobiological analysis would be like...
Ideological discrimination has been no less violent. The tenets of racism have beer developed and continue to be taught at no less than this country's most esteemed universities. The characterizations of blacks as animal, barbarian, infantile, pre-scientific, intellectually inferior, psychologically disadvantaged, and morally unsound continue to buttress the intellectual foundations of social relations in this country. How perfectly consistent that no attempt would be made on the part of universities to study thoroughly the history and civilizations of the African continent without the pressure of vocal militants. How perfectly consistent that American colonizers would ignore all the history...
...argument does not appear to be one that is unique to Rich, although as a poet and mother herself she can skillfully buttress it with details from her own experience. Unfortunately, she does not stop there...
...pray (a Skill of yours I much admire) and bann the consumption of intoxicating Spirits. You may remember one of my Famous Sayings: "One man with courage makes a majority." Much of my early life was spent in the Co. of soldiers, and I know how compleatly liquor can buttress a man's courage. On the happy day you become President, Washington will have room for only so many majorities...