I refuse to sing this anti-Christian and anti-South song that promoted a secular movement.
They did some “trampling out” in the 1861-65 era killing Christians like Pat Cleburne and States Rights Gist. But today the northeast is post-Christian but the South still has some holdouts who follow Biblical principles.
You might prefer God Save the South, which came out at abut the same time and was widely sung on the other side of the Potomac.
Can you cite which words you'd call "anti-Christian" or even "anti-South"?
You know, many Southerners supported the Union cause.
They were not "anti-South" but were certainly anti-slavery.
Monterrosa-24: "...today the northeast is post-Christian but the South still has some holdouts who follow Biblical principles."
Not necessarily.
This map shows there are plenty of Trump voters outside the North East's big cities.
I would suggest that Cleburne and Gist played a part in their own demise.
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.