1. You know, I am a Southerner but up to a year or so ago I didn't care one way or the other about the Confederate battle flag (CBF). I was neither pro nor con. I know plenty of people that fly the flag, have stickers or tattoos of it. They do not hate black people nor dream of a return to slavery. They are no more prejudiced than any normal person is in the course of their day. I have never seen anyone use it in a fashion designed to deliberately hurt anyone.
They are merely proud of their heritage and their ancestors. If we have no sense of our past then what kind of future can we have so disconnected.
The past year has seen attacks on the heritage of Southern whites. Not just on the CBF, but also on monuments. This is part of a longer term attack on Southern culture that has been ongoing since the end of the Civil War.
I slowly started on the path to support of the CBF. None of these people I know are trying to hurt anyone and they are being slandered continuously for nothing. Why because someone's feels are hurt?
Sorry, but feels is a very dumb reason for me.
Then this past week, the Southern Baptist Convention decided to repudiate the CBF and called on their members to discontinue use.
Firstly, no SBC church I have ever seen flies a CBF. I don't believe any do. So, this was mainly the SBC trying to control members. Add to that this approval of the use of "Great Commission Baptists" as an alternative name, and it appears to me that the "Southern" Baptist Convention has become embarrassed by the majority of their members.
This is adoption of Northern thought that always wishes to downgrade Southerners. They make fun of our speech. They make fun of our culture. They make fun of our religion. Well, now our religion has joined them in being embarrassed by us. They have joined the culture at large and decided we are racist and must be corrected for our own good. How very authoritarian of them.
2. I think this is the SBC getting ready for a push to rid Mississippi of it's flag. I think they think they are being proactive and getting ahead of the cultural curve. If this is their goal, I foresee a lot of Mississippi churches dropping out of the SBC and churches being split.
All for what? So the SBC could virtue signal to the culture at large that they were hip and with it?
3. Thinking about getting a Mississippi state flag sticker to affix to my car.
4. Not only that, the SBC has decided to push for more Muslim refugees in the US. This is ill thought out and probably a push by Russell Moore who pushes for a lot of what we see in the paragraphs above. Probably, from his hatred of Trump that is so evident.
We are called to go to the nations, not bring them here.
We have no magic dirt that will magically turn them into citizens and Christians. Evidence what happened this week in Orlando, a 2nd generation Muslim who still didn't think of himself as American. They don't assimilate and their religion calls for Hijrah, conquering by migrating into our lands. The SBC is setting itself up to be looked as aiding these goals. It is all well and good to care for people, but you can do that without destroying the security of your own people. It is called go to them. Trump is the only one calling for a common sense start to a solution to this problem.
And don't tell me how we can screen them, third world hellholes at war keep little if any records and they want to get rid of these problem children. We ourselves are unable to effectively screen or even track people we let in. Also, we have DHS people on terror watch lists for God's sake.
Diversity+proximity=WAR. We don't need to pass down this problem to our children.
5. All they had to do was leave shit alone, but typical SJW herd mentality propels them to head for the cliffs and over. There was no pressing need for this flag thing.
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