They did some “trampling out” in the 1861-65 era killing Christians like Pat Cleburne and States Rights Gist.
"States Rights Gist"? How Christian could his family have been when they named their son after a secular political movement?
I think I went to school with his great-grandson, Unilateral Secession Gist.
Anyway, Gist and Cleburne were killed in battle, along with many thousands of others who were equally religious in the war that Davis and the secessionists started.
There's a parallel between the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the US and "Jerusalem" in the UK. Both songs make use of religious imagery and have been proposed as national anthems, but some in the clergy have found them insufficiently orthodox and too focused on this world, rather than the afterlife.
>Anyway, Gist and Cleburne were killed in battle, along with many thousands of others who were equally religious in the war that Davis and the secessionists started.
I forget, who invaded who?