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Jesus & the Confederate Flag

By December 3, 2012Blog

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  • Pam says:

    Is this southern American god different from the one those of us in the rest of the world worship?

  • Greetings says:

    You Do Your thang*and I’ll Do Mine!

    *Does not include gay sex, gay clubs, gay adoption, gay talking, gay hand gestures, interracial marriage, or voting Democrat in a national election.

  • Holly says:

    Gee, I thought Jesus was more of a peace and love kinda guy.

  • Leanne says:

    Can a Southern person please explain to me how Jesus and the Confederate flag are remotely related? I don’t get the whole confederacy thing…..sorry, I am an ignorant northerner.

    • Vorjack says:

      Well, the Confederate States of America was a more explicitly Christian country than the United States. It’s constitution explicitly reference God, which is more than the US Constitution does. A lot of Lost Causers make that point even as they downplay the slavery aspect.
      Really though I think it’s nostalgia. Everything would have been better if the south had been allowed to leave peacefully. Everything that they feel is fading or threatened gets linked to the Confederacy. Since many of these folks look around and see the fading Christian hegemony, they automatically assume that the Confederacy would have been a better guardian of Christian privilege.

  • Mia says:

    I’m in the south and I don’t get it either Leanne.

    • Leanne says:

      Thank you, I feel better not understanding it.
      Thank you, Vorjack. I would like to say your explanation makes sense–and it does….but I am not sure it makes sense enough to wear this t-shirt.

  • I agree with commenters here that the Confederate flag cannot be separated from the institution of slavery, and any attempts to justify flying it by using terms such as “heritage” are ignorant, unsuccessful attempts to whitewash history.
    What I do have a problem with, and it’s only showing up slightly in this set of comments, is the underlying implication that racism is strictly a southern problem. I’ve known countless racists from various parts of this nation, and in fact can tell some stories about entire towns in states as far north as Minnesota. The Rebel flag is a southern thing, but racism is not.

    • Vorjack says:

      The Rebel flag is a southern thing, but racism is not.
      Agreed, but …

      Southern racism has a distinctive character as a result of southern history. Southern racism is also bound up in some streams of traditional southern identity. It has to be spoken of as a part of the Lost Cause nostalgia and the southern “rebel” culture.

      The south didn’t invent racism and certainly doesn’t own a patent. But the specific problem of racism in the south is distinct enough that it has to be spoken of differently than you would racism in other regions.