As the war rages ever on, Southern Baptists continue hammering upon several sin themes to explain the South’s inability–yet!–to defeat the evil United States. Among the sins of the Confederacy that prevent God thus far from handing victory to His chosen nation are: extortion (the most common theme), Sabbath breaking, vice in the army camps,…
White Southern Baptists continue debating what the Confederate States of America has done wrong to invoke chastisement — in the form of a drawn-out war and the hardships associated thereof — from God. The slave-based Confederacy acknowledges itself as a Christian nation: the national motto is “Deo Vindice” (Under God, Our Vindicator), while the constitution…
In the wake of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and from the context of a firm commitment to God’s willing of the enslavement of the African race, Baptists in the Confederacy continue searching for some other acceptable reason for God not yet leading His chosen nation to victory over the evil United…