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One topic I think Eustace Mullins got it wrong on was exactly why was Canaan cursed. I brought this up with my men's bible study group recently and all the boomers shit a brick and nearly chased me away with pitchforks and torches. (admittedly, I didn't have all my notes when I brought the subject up) Below is an email I sent them after gathering all my notes.

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Genesis 9:20-27 English Standard Version (ESV)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+9%3A20-27&version=ESV

20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;

a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

26 He also said,

“Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;

and let Canaan be his servant.

27 May God enlarge Japheth,

and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,

and let Canaan be his servant.”

V24) “..knew what his youngest son had done to him” – This implies Ham did more than just seeing his naked father.

v22) “And Ham… saw the nakedness…”.

Seeing nakedness is equated with uncovering nakedness in Lev 20:17:

17 “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.

Then what about uncovering the “nakedness of his father”? Lev 18:7-8

7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

The conclusion here is that Ham uncovered the nakedness of this mother or his father’s wife.

After reading these passages again & meditating on it for a few days, I am not sure we have to go to Leviticus to decode what is happening in this passage. vv25-27 can be solved with a classic syllogism. Here’s an example:

All men are mortal

Socrates is a man

Therefore, Socrates is mortal

If we apply that logic to vv25-27:

Canaan will be a servant to his brothers (v25)

Canaan is a servant to Shem (v26)

Canaan is a servant to Japeth (v27)

Therefore, Shem and Japeth are Canaan’s brothers.