[ZULU]

There was an unholy connection between the old Methodist Church and the Ku Klux Klan and part of the connection was because of the anti-alcohol stand of the Klan and of the Methodist Church.

They probably viewed the Catholic Church as a particularly virulent opponent as they used real wine in their liturgy instead of fruit juice. (I guess the Methodist Bible of the time didn’t include the Miracle at Cana.) In some areas the Ku Klux Klan was employed to enforce prohibition.

Read “The Invisble Empire” all about the Klan. At its height in the 1920’s it was not a Southern phenomenon. Places as disparate as New Jersey, Montana and Maine had Klans and people as high as governors and Senators were Klan members. As late as the 1950s I remember reading a Life Magazine article with a bunch of Klansmen in brightly colored robes - Kleagles, etc posing with their hoods off for the camera, grins on thier idiotic inbred faces.

Harry Truman, a Democrat and briefly a Klansman, condemned them as a society of Hooded Bigots after he had left them with disdain.

Today’s United Methodist Church is still anti-alcohol - sort of, but has strayed from the path of anti-Catholocism to the equally disagreeable path of Political Correctness.

How idiots in the Klan could reconcile their virulent anti-Semitism with the worship of a Jewish Christ is beyonod me.

But I guess if you are a nut, there is no room for logic in your brain.

[GonzoII]

"They probably viewed the Catholic Church as a particularly virulent opponent as they used real wine in their liturgy instead of fruit juice. (I guess the Methodist Bible of the time didn’t include the Miracle at Cana.)"

I can't stop laughing at that one....;0)

[Clemenza]

Back in the 1920s, the Klan was very strong on Long Island in New York, and had control of the Islip Town* government for much of the decade. Until about 30 years ago, there was a plaque at Islip Town Hall under the American flag that said "donated by the daughters of the Ku Klux Klan." The Brooklyn chapter used to have their meetings at a hall right across from Prospect Park that still stands.

*Note: On Long Island, "Towns" refer to large collections of villages and hamlets, and usually comprise 1/4-1/3 of a county.

Since most Puerto Ricans have black blood (a no-no back in the day), it doesn't surprise me that the reaction was so violent.

[mware]

I know they (KKK) were in NJ. They burned a cross on the lawn of my great grandmother who was Catholic.

Weird thing is that the hound dog of one of the guys who did it was there the next morning sound asleep. She knew exactly who had been a part of it.

[packrat35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan

[ichabod1]

I used to hang out with methodists. They would giggle uncomfortably at the thought of a real Holy Eucharist. Remember the story of Jesus at Cana when he turned the water into juice?

[Zionist Conspirator]

How idiots in the Klan could reconcile their virulent anti-Semitism with the worship of a Jewish Christ is beyonod me.

But I guess if you are a nut, there is no room for logic in your brain.

That's simple. He wasn't Jewish. He was the "kinsman-redeemer" of Israel (the White Race). The "Jews" aren't Biblical Israel, but just sort of pop up out of nowhere two thousand years ago to kill chr*st. Then they went off and founded the American Civil Liberties Union. [/sarcasm]