[ravinson]

In reading through your bookmarks and website I see that you fit into the category of Southernphobe..

That's nonsense. I spent some very enjoyable time living in the South when I was in college. Fortunately (and unlike you), most Southerners don't identify with the Confederate slaveholdocracy.

To equate the Jackson character to bin Ladens of the world is silly and lacking of any intellectual analysis.

I didn't equate them, I merely compared them by pointing out that both used their religious beliefs (perhaps sincerely held) to justify their evil causes.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Fortunately (and unlike you), most Southerners don't identify with the Confederate slaveholdocracy."

OK, I get it. You're one of those who ignores the point and tries to win an argument by redirecting. You are sort of right; LIKE me, most Southerners don't identify with the Confederate slaveholdocracy. As others point out you are applying judgement of Nineteenth Century man through 21st Century eyes. If you can't accept or grasp the concept that people thought differently and understand that things like slavery and (the Northern favored) indentured servitude (or tenured slavery) were measured differently, then there can be no reasonable discussion on this subject. It takes a little thought and empathy.

But I suspect you know that, but in admitting it would have to admit you are wrong headed.