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Thomas E. Woods Jr., “a founding member of the League of the South”, “[http://web.archive.org/web/19991023114339/http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue04/christendom.htm Christendom’s Last Stand]”
Thomas E. Woods Jr., “a founding member of the League of the South”, “[http://web.archive.org/web/19991023114339/http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue04/christendom.htm Christendom’s Last Stand]”
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Revision as of 12:29, 14 March 2023

So the War Between the States, far from a conflict over mere material interests, was for the South a struggle against an atheistic individualism and an unrelenting rationalism in politics and religion, in favor of a Christian understanding of authority, social order and theology itself. The intelligent Left knows this, and even the incurably stupid, like Carol Moseley-Braun, must at least sense it. For all their ignorant blather about slavery and civil rights, what truly enrages most liberals about the Confederate Battle Flag is its message of defiance. They see in it the remnants of a traditional society determined to resist cultural and political homogenization, and refusing to be steamrolled by the forces of progress.

I have been a Northerner for my entire 24 years. But when we reflect on what was really at stake in the “late unpleasantness,” we can join with Alexander Stephens in observing that “the cause of the South is the cause of us all.”

— Thomas E. Woods Jr., “a founding member of the League of the South”, “Christendom’s Last Stand