Joe Zollars wrote:BTW it should also be pointed out that Jefferson Davis never surrendered to the Godless Blue Horde and to his dying day refused to recognize the legitimacy of yankee government.
And that certainly made a HUGE difference.
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They say that I am bad news. They say "Stay Away."
It is a matter of principle. Just as I refuse to recognize the legitimacy of homosexual marriage. Certainly my opinions make little to no difference as to whether or not those in such error attempt this satan inspired arangement, but at least my conscience is clean.
For the record, I too refuse to recognize the legitimacy or correctness of the government brought to our land by the yankee colonel who raped my great-great-great grandmammy and stole the old family plantation (and for the record their were no slaves on this plantation as my ancestors were good Methodists and abolitionists).
Joe Zollars
My Dear Brothers in Christ!
I posted my commentary in the prayerfull hope that it might shift the conversation on this issue to a more Traditional Orthodox understanding. I beg your forgiveness for my failure. It's late, and I have just returned from a parish call, so to bed for me, I'll sleep on my responce and write in the morning. Pray for me.
priest luke
George of Australia: please stop putting words in my mouth. As stated before, if you even bothered to read my post, I am neither qualified or holy enough to speak on the sins of others and what is and is not a sin.
Orthodox6: Can you be more insulting? For the definition a Southern Nationalist is one who takes the historically Jeffersonian model that each state is a seperate nation that agrees to come together in a somewhat cohesive "Republic of Republics" but maintains at least limited sovreignty. In Context I was referring to the fact that we are indeed a seperate people from the Godless Blue Horde and their yankee descendents who raped my great-great-great grandmammy and forced us off our land, to this day denying us the simple right of decoratin the graves of our ancestors.
Oh and BTW the conflict of 1861 to present in its various forms is hardly a civil war as in a civil war one must have at least two factions fighting for control of the same government. We merely wanted and want our constitutionally protected liberties. All we wanted was a peaceful seperation, as Jefferson Davis summed up so well "All we wish is to be left alone" when asked about the Cause. If what we did in 1861 is so wrong, then the very Constituion and Decleration themselves are illicit documents.
Joe Zollars
All we wished and wish is to keep our own culture, to raise our children to hold and cherish our values, and to be free to honor and celebrate that culture.
Amazingly no-one denies this right of those who are descended from the northern agressors who invaded our Land and frankly I am surprised that General Sherman himself does not have his own federal holiday. Yet we are persecuted for choosing to practice January 15th (the Birthday of General Robert Edward Lee) and Confederate Memorial Day 5 as days of honoring our fallen ancestors.
perhaps you should recall before you condemn us, that it is those who win the wars that write the history books. Having lived and breathed sweet southern air my whole life until moving to Kansas a few years ago, I can safely say that I will not raise a child in Kansas and quite frankly consider it cruelty to do so--or for that matter in any other norhtern state. The fact that so many of the children up here are so demoralized and hold no values whatsoever is not surprising--look at what their culture (if it can be called that) has taught them.
If nothing else, what has convinced me of the correctness of the South is the way these vile yankee socialists act on a daily basis--even the "religious" ones.
Joe Zollars
