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I have mixed emotions of the removing of the Confederate Battle Flag- seeing both sides. Now the question is will Old Glory be next, another representive of slavery, truthfully even more.

Also research showed less that 30% of southerners could afford to own slaves that were much to costly for the average "rebel".

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I don't have mixed emotions or see two sides to our Confederate Flag. I was born & bred a southerner & I believe that flag should be flown. I have never seen it as a racist or slavery symbol. That flag is a symbol of my ancestors that fought in the Civil War. Taking it down is saying those that fought & died in the Civil War don't matter.

 

All the controversy is all because of the POS that killed those people & was seen in a picture holding the Confederate flag on his website. I guess if he had been holding the US flag, that would be taken down too. Don't hold your breath cause that day is coming too.

 

Before anyone jumps me, that's my opinion which I still have a right to have one. 

 

 

What can you do? Don't let the lefties rewrite history. Make sure your kids know that leftie teachers and other lefties will lie to them, and why, and make sure they know the truth. Not every black person has slave ancestors, not very many whites came from slave owners, so don't buy into the BS that they did, and speak up when they try to run that lie by you or your kids. I guess speaking up is what we all need to do. Being afraid of 'offending' a racist black person or a white person eaten up by 'white guilt' is BS, they stay offended anyway. They sure as heck don't mind offending others with their lies and distortions.

Unless, there are any living slaveholders, no one should feel guilt. Both the US legal system and the Christian religion do not hold persons guilty for the actions of their ancestors.

 

The Confederate flag went up on many southern state capitol buildings from 1960 to 1965 on the centennial of the Civil War. Unfortunately, segregationists left it up after that.  One reason I have no problem with removing the flag in those places. 

 

However, when I read of fanatics insisting confederate war memorials be removed, statues removed, bodies dug up, the Jefferson and Washington memorial destroyed and the name of the capitol, itself changed, one realizes the fanatics are haters of the first water. Enough!

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

isis is destroying symbols of history too. Someone asked, will the pyramids go too? What will be torn down, outlawed and shunned by the American version of isis? What will be torn down, outlawed, and shunned by the isis version all over the world? Will the bible be outlawed since it supports slavery?

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The radical Islamists in Egypt called for the pyramids and sphinx, as well as all monuments and records of preMuslim Egypt to be destroyed.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

 Will the bible be outlawed since it supports slavery?

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Hadn't thought of that but it could very well happen. I'm surprised someone hasn't already starting whining about that too. That will most likely come after the US flag is removed.

 

I don’t think things are as bad as they’re going to get. You either believe it or you don’t, but the Bible speaks of a great earthquake, the sun turning black, the moon will turn like blood, & the stars will fall.

 

Speaking of slavery, I’m not defending the Bible, just stating my opinion about what it says. It doesn’t specifically condemn the practice of slavery, but it does give instructions on how slaves should be treated. In biblical times, slavery was different from what we know was slavery. Slavery in the Bible wasn’t based on race, nationality or the color of their skin, it was based more on economics & social status. People even sold themselves as slaves when they couldn’t pay their debts or provide for their families. In the New Testament, doctors, lawyers, & even politicians (Heaven forbid!  ) were slaves of someone else. Some people actually chose to be slaves so their needs would be provided for by their masters.

 

Both the Old & New Testaments condemned the practice of “man-stealing,” like what happened in Africa in the 19th century. Africans were rounded up by slave-hunters, who sold them to slave-traders, who brought them to the United States to work on plantations & farms. The Bible said this practice was "abhorrent" to God. The penalty for such a crime in the Mosaic Law was death: “Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death”.

In the New Testament, slave-traders are listed among those who are “ungodly and sinful” & are in the same category as those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, adulterers, perverts, liars & perjurers.

I'm not preaching (again Heaven forbid!  ) just nothing more than giving my opinion. I don't even know if the Bible is anything more than a storybook & a way to scare children into submission. I guess I'm the last person on this forum that should be giving an opinion.

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