Trump to Confederate flag: You're fired! (2015)

Politico ^ | 06/23/15 | Adam B. Lerner

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the mention.

I’m glad to hear that observation.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, the Lord is quite alive and well in the world and I love to talk about it.

Missionary work intrigues me, because it is a lesson in how Jesus relates to people in what we might think are different circumstances. But in the end, every people group cares about the same kind of things.

Christianized countries pose a barrier to evangelization that others don’t, because the common reaction to asking your neighbor about Jesus is yes, I believe in Jesus, even when he really doesn’t. He’s never actually approached Jesus in worship, he only knows that Jesus is some kind of big spiritual cheese in the sky. Our task in Christianized countries is to show people that what they thought they knew about Jesus comes way short of the reality. And as I encountered right here on FR not too long ago, that kind of assertion is frequently greeted with a lot of scoffing.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the additional comments HTRN.

I agree.

[odawg]

Yeah, I know. It took 725,000 American lives to accomplish that for 3 million slaves.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In an indirect manner.

I believe the bad spirituality (hypocrisy, really) over slaves was a major factor in pitching America into the crazy Civil War. Both North and South.

This set the scene for the Emancipation Proclamation although that wasn’t even purposed so much for the benefit of the slaves as for the detriment of the South. And a few years later, the North followed suit in the Constitution, the train of freedom for the slaves having become unstoppable.

Now if America had made a clean break at that point, we probably would have had a different story today, with far more cordial race relations. However the Southern Democrats dug in with a vengeful grudge. What they couldn’t enslave, they COULD Jim-Crow.