Why do you say John Brown was scum?He was a devout fundamentalist Christian and conservative in most of his moral beliefs.
He just believed slavery was an abomination and used pretty extreme tactics to see it abolished.
Unwise in retrospect perhaps but it certainly doesn’t make him”scum”.
Its been said the Civil War was bracketed by two madmen.
John Brown and John Wilkes Booth.
I think its a very good point.
Moral Christians don’t go about murdering people. Same goes for Quantrill and his ilk.
Those "pretty extreme tactics" included being a serial killer. John Brown is to be condemned, not celebrated.
Devout Christian? Conservative? Just as Osama bin Laden and Sadaam Hussein are devout right?
He just believed slavery was an abomination and used pretty extreme tactics to see it abolished.
Despite the fact that neither God nor Jesus Christ condemned it, or listed it in any one of the ten "Commandments" (breaking one of those condemned one to an eternal hell absent God's forgiveness).
Extreme tactics? Like murder, butchering 5 innocent civilians in Kansas; theft, robbery, mutilation, armed insurrection, and treason?
I am anti-slavery, anti-abortion, but that goes not grant me the right to kill anyone because of it. John Brown wasn't a madman, he was lucid, an archetypical Jim Jones.