If we had kept the Confederacy under iron occupation
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If we had kept the Confederacy under iron occupation
Post #1The enemy country called the Confederacy was the center of toxic fundamentalism. In the dying days of Jim Crow, it gave us the first of the "angry white male" figures in the person of George "axehandle" Wallace and the segregationist party which was still praised by southern CongressCritters as recently as the Bush occupation. They are the source of the still-existing KKK, a terrorist group known for atrocities worse than Gitmo or Al- Quaeda. When Union troops left, the intransigent government-haters openly attacked and slaughtered Blacks. All else you can find in "The Bloody Shirt."
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East of Eden
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Post #2
What does this have to do with religion?
"We are fooling ourselves if we imagine that we can ever make the authentic Gospel popular......it is too simple in an age of rationalism; too narrow in an age of pluralism; too humiliating in an age of self-confidence; too demanding in an age of permissiveness; and too unpatriotic in an age of blind nationalism." Rev. John R.W. Stott, CBE
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East of Eden wrote: What does this have to do with religion?
It is interesting to note that Deo vindice (with God as protector) was the motto of the Confederate States of America.DeBunkem wrote: The South is the center of the Bible Belt and agressive Fundamentalism.
Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
Gospel of John
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
Gospel of John
Post #5
Interesting, since McCarthyites forced a religious motto on our country and money. I wonder how many were Southerners? It was common for Southern churches to melt down their bells for cannon barrels. The preachers had the Bible on their side on slavery. Now we seemed gripped in a vortex of Confederate conservatism that is threatening to impoverish the Union. People before the War remarked upon the appearance of shabbiness that met the eye upon leaving the prosperous Maryland farming country and crossing the Mason/Dixon Line. That of couse did not apply to the aristocracy, who looked down on Southern poor whites and helped impoverish them with slave labor and dirt-poor factory wages.
