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Antebellum Christianity in the Service of SlaveryThe current far right churches in the US are the spiritual descendants of Southern churches who formed the backbone of the pro-slavery propaganda machine. They have taken over a large portion of Trump's operations. Mike Pompeo is a dominionist (see “This Evil Is All Around Us” 1/12/2017 Slate) who believes firmly in crusades. That did not work out too well for the US in Irak or in Viet Nam, where the military and political leadership also thought in terms of a crusade, backing the South Vietnamese Catholics against the vast majority of Buddhists and pushing them into the arms of the North. Gen. Kelly's Civil War Story Derives From 19th-Century Pro-Slavery Evangelicalism 11/9/2017 Alternet: "This framework asserts that the Civil War was not primarily about slavery, that slavery itself was not nearly as bad as we are led to believe (in fact it was a “positive good” in that it exposed Africans to the Gospel and to a “biblical family”). The war was framed as a theological conflict in which Southern culture was an expression of a Godly civilization battling against a materialistic “humanistic” one."
How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress
Black People 6/22/2017 Huff Post: "White Christians in the South
didn’t just support slavery — the Southern church was the backbone of the
Confederacy and its attempts to keep African Americans in bondage,
according to Harry Stout, Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious
History at Yale University." |
Gen. Kelly's Civil War Story Derives From 19th-Century Pro-Slavery
Evangelicalism 11/9/2017 Alternet: "This framework asserts that the Civil
War was not primarily about slavery, that slavery itself was not nearly as bad
as we are led to believe (in fact it was a “positive good” in that it exposed
Africans to the Gospel and to a “biblical family”). The war was framed as a
theological conflict in which Southern culture was an expression of a Godly
civilization battling against a materialistic “humanistic” one."
The Missing Black History At Some Civil War Memorials 8/31/2017 Black
Agenda Report: "Though I haven’t been to the site of Chicago’s Camp Douglas
monument since the 1980s I’m willing to bet the memorial exhibit says nothing
about the reason those four or five thousand white boys in Chicago and fifty
thousand more white boys in the other camps north and south died. They died
because by 1863 the federal armies began fielding regiments of black troops. By
war’s end there were more than 200,000 black soldiers in the Union Army, most of
them former slaves. The Confederates refused to treat captured black soldiers as
prisoners of war. Captured black soldiers were murdered on the spot, or sold
into slavery. White officers and noncoms leading black troops were supposed to
be tried and summarily executed for leading slave insurrection, a capital
offense, so they also took pains not to be captured alive."
I'm a black daughter of the Confederacy, and this is how we should deal with all
those General Lees 8/27/2017 LA Times: "Yet the monuments debate isn’t
really about the past. It’s about a present-day assertion of white supremacy and
whether our nation is going to stop making excuses and stare it down. Most of
the statues, as has been widely discussed, were erected long after Robert E. Lee
surrendered at Appomattox. They were hoisted into view to assert white dominance
at specific points in time when African Americans gained a measure of political
influence — during Reconstruction and the civil rights era. With the bronzes
came domestic terrorism, lynchings, bombings and cross burnings."
How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress Black
People 6/22/2017 Huff Post: "White Christians in the South didn’t just
support slavery — the Southern church was the backbone of the Confederacy and
its attempts to keep African Americans in bondage, according to Harry Stout,
Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University."
Proslavery Ideology: Christian Beliefs 11/30/2015 University of Georgia
Did Religion Make the American Civil War Worse? 8/23/2015 Atlantic: "Above
all, it was a time when Christianity allied itself, in the most unambiguous and
unconditional fashion, to the actual waging of a war. In 1775, American soldiers
sang Yankee Doodle; in 1861, it was Glory, glory, hallelujah! As Stout argues,
the Civil War “would require not only a war of troops and armaments … it would
have to be augmented by moral and spiritual arguments that could steel millions
of men to the bloody business of killing one another...” Stout concentrates on
describing how Northerners, in particular, were bloated with this certainty."
The Truth About Religion in America: The Founders Loathed Superstition and We
Were Never a Christian Nation 6/15/2012 Alternet: "The Founding Fathers
weren’t all Christian. Some, of course, were: Patrick Henry (Episcopalian), John
Hancock (Congregationalist), John Jay (Episcopalian), and Sam Adams
(Congregationalist), for example, were all devout and pretty conventional
Christians. But the big players in the founding of the United States—such men as
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison, John Adams, and probably Alexander Hamilton—weren’t. Each of them was
much more comfortable with a deistic understanding of God than a Christian one.
For them, the deity was an impersonal First Cause who created a rationally
patterned natural order and who was best worshiped through the exercise of
reason and virtue."
Why Non-Slaveholding Southerners Fought 1/25/2011 Civil War
Trust: "Southern clergy defended the morality of slavery through an elaborate
scriptural defense built on the infallibility of the Bible, which they held up
as the universal and objective standard for moral issues. Religious messages
from pulpit and from a growing religious press accounted in large part for the
extreme, uncompromising, ideological atmosphere of the time."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes. In the United States:
Electronic Edition. Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863
Major slave owner with 3 plantations. Developed methods used by other slave
owners.
docsouth.unc.edu/church/jones/jones.html
Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?
www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-33/why-christians-supported-slavery.html
A Southern Christian View of Slavery: James Henry Thornwell
From The Annals of America: 1858-1865, The Crisis of the Union 1861
"THE ANTAGONISM of Northern and Southern sentiment on the subject of slavery
lies at the root of all the difficulties which have resulted in the
dismemberment of the federal Union, and involved us in the horrors of an
unnatural war."
The Religious Origins of Manifest Destiny
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/mandestiny.htm
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Christianity in the Service of Slavery: the Far Right Churches
The Christian Right in the Americas and Africa
Psychology and White Supremacy
Klu Klux Klan, Nazis, and other American White Supremacists
Antifa
Colonized Progressives: Why do
so many progressive authors render afrodescendants invisible?
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