[wideawake]

Thanks for pointing out that Hamilton's Federalists, defenders of the Constitution and of the new Federal government, as well as opponents of the French Revolution, were the original American conservatives.

And all attempts at Christian antinomianism founder on Paul's epistles.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Thanks for pointing out that Hamilton's Federalists, defenders of the Constitution and of the new Federal government, as well as opponents of the French Revolution, were the original American conservatives.

And all attempts at Christian antinomianism founder on Paul's epistles.

Thanks wideawake.

If you go back far enough in this thread you will see that I entered to counter an assertion that Lee was a hero because he opposed the federal government's disruption of local custom in the name of objective morality.

There isn't a better way to understand "palaeoconservatism" than its utter rejection of objective universal religious truth (corrosive of "immemorial local custom"). And unfortunately, most professional neo-Confederates loudly invoke this anti-morality, equating moralism with liberal meddling and the messianic Kingdom of G-d on earth with manmade hells.

What kind of Southerner prefers H. L. Mencken to Jonathan Edwards, sees a straight line between Cotton Mather and Ted Kennedy, can't tell the difference between Lenin and Calvin Coolidge, or prefers staid liberal episcopal services to the "puritan religious ferment" of good old Southern Fundamentalist revivals? Not the Fundamentalist Biblicist Southerner of the present day. I'm afraid the post-Bellum Bible Belt South has much more in common with Puritan New Engand than it does with King Charles (either one) or the Byrds of Colonial Virginia.