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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Forgiving Their Attacker, His Christian Victims Heaped Burning Coals on His Head
National Review Online ". . .Terrorists have proven they can change national policies, change public opinion, and even change cultures — all in their favor.
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I was shutting down for the night when I saw this E-mail, and skimmed the titles. Two things caught my attention:
The first was a reference to Romans 12:20 heaping burning coals on his head – something I was about to bring up on Sunday when Carey beat me to it and brought up the Charleston massacre. I could have waxed eloquent about how much of Romans 12 had been demonstrated to us last week, but decided to sit on it for the sake of time.
The second was the reference to leftists abhorring the flag of the confederacy. That did not sit well with me, as I consider the likelihood that they would actually have rallied around that flag 154 years ago. I thought about it as I was brushing my teeth and had to come back and flesh out this idea.
In 1861, there were two Americas. One had the wealth, the other had the resources. The problem with the South was that they had a hard time unleashing Capitalism, personal liberty, and freedom to chase the American dream because they found the ultimate in cheap labor and had to protect that resource. After all, even though all people are equal, some people are more equal than others. And in order to preserve what little power they had, they mightily repressed Blacks by taking their rights away from them and stealing the products of their labor. Of course, that unbalanced the wheel of Capitalism, which made for a terrible economy in the South. When political forces in the North challenged their way of doing things, they doubled down and stiffened their necks, insisting on getting their way time after time after time by threatening to bolt from the Union if they didn’t get their way – so much so that it looked like they were winning the culture wars (as in admitting the same number of slave states as free states). But they overplayed their hand and forced their view on everyone else (as in the Dred Scott decision) and that turned the population of the North firmly against them.
Now the North was full of evil people, trying to take our God-given right to own property away from us. As much as we won court decisions, the people of the North were against us in increasing numbers; and all we wanted to do was exercise our constitutional right to own property – after all, Jefferson’s original draft of Declaration Of Independence said the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property.
What to do? Why, throw off the shackles of the masters in the North and declare ourselves free of their tyranny. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Then we’ll be free to do things our way. And we’ll have a flag that stands for freedom to do things our way. We’ll tell the slaves that the reason they are slaves is because of the evils of the North, and we are their best hope for achieving the American Dream – only we’ll make sure it is always out of their grasp so they have to depend on us for everything.
If it weren’t for more recent history of communism, I think today’s leftists would probably wave the Confederate flag as their banner – or at least secretly hang the stars ‘n bars in their closets.
OK, you and I both know that the things that led up to the Civil War were much more complex than that, but leftists are rarely “A” students when it comes to learning from history.
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