Christian group wants to 'redeem' US states

Reuters ^ | 10-24-2005 | Harriet McLeod

[Dr. Luv]

"Burnell hopes to move 2,500 Christians into the northern part of the state by next year"

Can you say "Jim Jones"?

[TommyDale]

I can't imagine anyone wanting to live in South Carolina, regardless of the reasons.

[hsalaw]

I respect their goals, but have to point out there already is such a God-fearing, isolated "nation" in the United States: it's the Amish. They've lived their own way amid the "English" (that's all the rest of us Americans) for several hundred years.

[Borges]

Their model should be Utah...

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Great, another group of yankee carpetbaggers. :)

[clee1]

As a God-fearing Christian, I'd as soon have the Taliban take power than these "righteous" folks.

[areafiftyone]

Just settling down for a good horror movie.

[SC33]

Thats because, according to your profile, you lived in Northern California all of your life. As much as you apparently don't like the deep south, they probably like the idea of you living here even less.

[Tim Long]

Left the Republican party for which other one? Probably one that can't win. Yeah, that's how you'll influence things.

[Wiseghy]

Sounds cultish to me...

[highball]

It *is* a cult.

[Betty Jane]

It sounds like the Free State project or the book Molon Labe for South Carolina. I wish them luck, but I don't think that secession line will help them get much support from current residents.

[JamesP81]

Christian Exodus hopes to throw off what it considers unconstitutional burdens imposed by the federal government. Examples, Burnell said, are federal spending on public education and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the use of the courts "to teach that Heather has two mommies."

He's right on that one. This secession stuff, however, just isn't going to fly.

TommyDale, if you don't like SC, then don't move there and keep your mouth shut about it. The people in SC are far nicer than in CA. I've heard it said, from someone who lived in NYC that, "in New York, you have to convince them you're not an axe murderer before they'll talk to you. In South Carolina, you have to convince them you are an axe murderer before they won't talk to you."

[TommyDale]

I love the deep South. I actually like Greenville and Charleston, SC. I just can't imagine trying to lure tens of thousands of people away from their current homes to move to Northern South Carolina...

[SC33]

"I wish them luck, but I don't think that secession line will help them get much support from current residents."

LOL, don't be so sure about that. That being said, this appears to be a very strange idea. It does seem somewhat cultish.

[kjam22]

They don't understand the part where Jesus says "my kingdom is not of this world"

[SC33]

Oh, my bad. I completely agree with you on that point. I interpreted your statement as saying that South Carolina is a bad place and that the deep south in general is undesirable.

I agree that this is odd. Can't understand it either.

[MineralMan]

Like all such movements, this one is silly. The good folks of South Carolina, overwhelmingly Christian, will simply absorb any influx of other Christians. The new arrivals are not coming in numbers sufficient to make any change whatsoever in the state. They might get elected to some city council in some small town they decide to settle in, but that's it.

In the meantime, the leader of Christian Exodus will continue to pad his bank account.

Silliness.

[SC33]

If they really wanted to change the status quo, why would they choose a state that is already essentially their ideal? I figured they would try and change the culture in a liberal northern state, not a deeply religous conservative southern state.

I don't understand any of this.