While not a national holiday nor widely celebrated as a religious holiday, Christmas eve has nonetheless arrived, signaling an occasion for many soldiers North and South to relax and, hopefully, look forward to better food on the morrow than on most days. Many, but not all: Christmas celebrations will vary from camp to camp and…
Among Southern Baptists, the drumbeat continues: extortioners must be shamed into repenting of their sins so that God can unleash his blessings upon the Confederacy and bring the war to an end. Today’s missive comes from Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index. While published this day, the editorial was penned in the midst of the Battle of…
Extortion, extortion, extortion. Southern Baptist opinion-shapers hammer home, week after week, the narrative of extortion as the sin of the Confederacy–a sin that is delaying inevitable victory over the United States. For the Confederacy to collect on God’s promise to carry his chosen people to victory, greed in the South must first be eradicated. Some…