Posted on 06/24/2015 9:09:16 AM PDT by all the best
As a radically conservative defender of liberty and states’ rights, I say that there is no good biblical, historical, or strategic reason to defend a state’s flying of the Confederate battle flag today. It is rather a sign of utter hypocrisy, sentimentalism, and misguided zeal. Every Christian of every stripe ought to be calling for the removal of that profound distraction in SC—and every other state-sponsored location—in the name of Christian integrity and the advance of true Christian values and culture.
I am quite cognizant of the appeal of “heritage not hate,” and I feel the power of it. It is too easy for liberals to exploit the crises and emotions related to them, and it is too easy to forget what was good about Southern values and to focus only on the bad.
In view of those much-lost and trampled values, I almost sympathize with the rhetoric of those who recognize that that flag is the Confederate battle flag (and not the national flag), and who therefore recognize that as long as the state flies that flag, it is essentially saying the war is not over, but we’re only experiencing the longest cease-fire in history. Almost.
Hypocrisy
But as long as the voters keep electing politicians to keep up that flag under such pretenses and for such reasons of “heritage” as states’ rights, honor, and freedom, they are engaging in what amounts to the biggest act of hypocrisy in history as well.
For starters, South Carolina takes in more Federal subsidies in comparison to taxes paid than any other state. Many studies confirm this status or something very close. According to one study, SC receives 5.38 times as much money as it pays in.
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Hypocrisy?
Really?
Do you want to talk about hypocrisy?
Placing Christ in a jar of urine = “art”.
Drawing a cartoon of mohammed = “sacrilege”.
Burning an American flag = “free speech”.
Waving a Confederate fag = “racism”.
Joel, you ignorant fool.
You have no more understanding of the issue at hand than the Pope has of Earth science.
Correct! Not very many people know that. The rectangular St. Andrews Cross flag is NOT the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia; that banner is square.
Joel McDurmon claims to be “radically conservative.” Reminds me of a guy who not too long ago described himself as “severely conservative.”
I don’t really care one way or the other about the confederate battle flag but it should be up to the people themselves in those states.
I see the left happily making a list of monuments they want to eliminate and names they want to change.
If a gay man murdered 7 people do you think the press would be calling for a total ban on the ‘rainbow’ flag?
To me, the flag represents resistance to an all-powerful, out-of-control central government.
“I sense a great stupid in the force.”
It’s a collective temper tantrum. We need to wait it out.
All cultures have their problems an the Blacks have theirs, and they’re not going to solve their problems by having everything related to the confederacy annhiliated.
Amen
If he cannot see where surrendering to this kind of shifting standard will obviously lead I'm gonna guess that Mr Durmon isn't the radically conservative defender of liberty he believe he is.
The statists will continue to to eat his lunch.
I support just about anything that offends leftists.
This is pissing me off.
EXACTLY the same reason I bought one today. Should be here in a day or two.
I find it interesting that the author starts off with “Every Christian of every stripe....” yet does not present even one scripture to substantiate his claims.
Have to wonder what that author has had to say about Christianity and abortion, queer marriage, divorce and Islam.
Crickets...
Amazing how ineffective windbags like this are when it comes to protecting national symbols from leftist attacks, but here they want to see if they can score a “win” by siding with the left. Like it will give them some cover when they go after something that he gives a damn about.
The historical reasons for the War of Northern Aggression have more to do with severe tariffs and duties the North placed on Southern goods than with slavery. The Yankee border states had slaves too. In fact, the Emancipation Proclamation was just a war ploy on Lincoln’s part, “freeing” only the slaves in the confederacy, and trying to create a fifth column behind enemy lines. The border state slaves remained enslaved until the end of the war.
Lincoln was quoted as saying he wanted to send all the blacks back to Africa.
I think that's why they now want to ban it. Its a constant reminder of what they stood for and fought for and deep down still want to embrace.
A lot of good men died to take that flag down and it was the democrats who put it back up.
Now they want me to own it? Not a chance. Its your flag democrats.
I am with Sam Houston in my opinion of the war. It was a bad war and a bad decision for Texas to join. The reconstruction was as bad as the war for the south.
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