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Neo-Confederate
Southrons
HOLY WAR
The US Civil War as
a Theological War:
Confederate
Christian Nationalism and the League of the
South
(PDF & HTM)
This is a
paper published by our foes but is none the less full of
good information and important quotes. It is well
worth taking time to read and easy for any knowledgeable
man or woman to see through the spin and nonsense of our
secular humanist enemies. Any true Christian
should be able to understand the correctness and
uprightness of the Neo-Confederate position, the evil
fruits of the forced Federal Union are self-evident and
axiomatic. The Union is a failed experiment and wicked
tyranny becoming steadily worse and more rotten with
every hour that passes by.
http://gis.depaul.edu/ehague/Articles/PUBLISHED%20CRAS%20ARTICLE.pdf
http://www.theocracywatch.org/civil_war_canadian_review.htm
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Introduction
Formed in Alabama in 1994,
the League of the South is a nationalist organization
that advocates secession from the United States of
America and the establishment of a fifteen-state
Confederate States of America (CSA)
– four states more than seceded during the US Civil War
(1861–1865), the additional states being Oklahoma,
Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland (Southern Patriot).
With over ten thousand members, the League professes a
commitment to constructing this new CSA based on a
reading of Christianity and the Bible that can be
identified as “Christian nationalist.” This position is
centred upon what we identify as the theological war
thesis, an assessment that interprets the
nineteenth-century CSA to be an orthodox Christian
nation and understands the 1861–1865 US Civil War to
have been a theological war over the future of American
religiosity fought between devout Confederate and
heretical Union states.
In turn, this reasoning leads to claims that the “stars
and bars” battle flag and other Confederate icons are
Christian symbols and the assertion that opposition to
them equates to a rejection of Christianity.
The theological war thesis originated in the Southern
Presbyterian Church of the mid-nineteenth century, its
advocates including Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898),
professor at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and
Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson’s army chaplain;
James Henley Thornwell (1812–1862), President of South
Carolina College, later professor at Columbia
Theological Seminary; and Benjamin Morgan Palmer
(1818–1902), founding editor of the Southern
Presbyterian Review, professor at Columbia Theological
Seminary, and later pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in New Orleans.
Following the Civil War, the Southern Presbyterian
Church published biographies of and writings by Dabney,
Thornwell, and Palmer. This work remained outside the
more mainstream
“Lost Cause”
apologetics for the Confederacy (see Pollard; Osterweis,
Romanticism and Myth; Gallagher and Nolan). Thus, it
comprised a marginal body of literature until
Southern Agrarian Richard M. Weaver
(1910–1963),
Christian Reconstructionist Rousas John Rushdoony
(1916–2001) and
Presbyterian leader C. Gregg Singer
(1910–1999) revived interest in these writings after
World War II. Subsequently, Sprinkle Publications of
Harrisonburg, Virginia, reprinted texts by
Southern Presbyterian clergymen dating from the Civil
War and postbellum period
and
academic historians, such as Eugene Genovese,
reappraised these works in the 1980s and 1990s.
Utilizing
original publications by nineteenth-century
Presbyterians
and
Internet postings by the League of the South
as the resources for our analysis, our explication will
examine the roots and development of
the theological war thesis.
We argue that the theological war thesis originated in
texts by theologians who between them contended that the
Confederacy comprised an orthodox Christian nation, at
times intertwining this religious viewpoint with,
amongst other things, defences of slavery, denunciations
of public education and mass schooling, and proposals to
maintain a hierarchical and unequal society. There is
not space to examine every publication in this
chronology and tradition, although as other authors have
pointed out, interpretations of Christianity and its
connection to the Civil War and Biblical justifications
for slavery are numerous (see inter alia Stanton; H.
Smith; Wilson; Webster; Webster and Leib, “Whose
South”and “Political Culture” ; Harrill; Genovese,
Slavery, “James Thornwell,” Slaveholders’ Dilemma,
Southern Tradition, ”Marxism,” “Religion,” “Consuming
Fire”; Farmer; Fox-Genovese and Genovese, Religious
Ideals, “Divine Sanction,” “Social Thought”; Miller, et
al.).
Tracing the theological war thesis from its origins to
the turn of the twenty-first century, we show how the
belief that the Confederacy was an orthodox Christian
nation has gained increasing circulation and acceptance.
Once a marginal revisionist reading of the Civil War, we
contend that groups as diverse as
the Sons of Confederate Veterans heritage organization,
Christian Reconstructionist bodies such as the Chalcedon
Foundation, and the League of the South now generally
accept the theological war thesis.
Reaching a broad audience at conferences, through
publications and on web sites, one of the League’s
founding directors, Steven Wilkins, continues to develop
theological interpretations of the Civil War.
Operating within this historical trajectory, therefore,
the League of the South has utilized the theological war
thesis to promote a Christian nationalist commitment to
constructing a new Confederate States of America.
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Confederate Memorial Tartan
Confederate Memorial Tartan
The Confederate Memorial Tartan is woven in Scotland and
serves as a tribute to the soldiers of the Confederacy.
The American Rebel tartan combines Confederate gray with
two groups of overstripes. One group is the red, white,
and blue colors of the Confederate Battle Flag and the
three Confederate States of America national flags. The
other group is yellow, blue, and red representing the
three main branches of the Confederate States Army: the
cavalry, infantry, and artillery, respectively. The CSA
rebel tartan is a memorial to all of those who fought
for the ideals, biblical principles and independence of
the Confederacy – it is a symbol of the rights of the
individual States to determine their destinies and
fortunes. It is also a symbol that the Cause is
not
lost!
The Confederate Memorial Tartan is approved by the
Scottish Tartan Authority with the International Tartan
Index (ITI) number 004195.
LINKS (pRO & cON)
Sources of Information & Intel
Confederate/Celtic Identities
http://camp1633.scv.org/page5/page5.html
http://templeofdemocracy.com/ScottishAffairs.htm
http://templeofdemocracy.com/scotland.htm
http://templeofdemocracy.com/YourClanOrOurs.htm
http://www.chalcedon.edu/
http://www.theocracywatch.org/civil_war_canadian_review.htm
http://www.counselofchalcedon.org/ |
