Confederate Bible-thumper conundrum

[manifold]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

 

[Ariux]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

God judging the South for bringing all those Afros over here?

 

[Leweman]

He loves their college football teams. So it evens out.

 

[MuadDib]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

God judging the South for bringing all those Afros over here?

New England shipping companies did that. That's why they called them "Yankee slave traders".

 

[Moonglow]

well a God says, there's two sides to every coin, one ends up, the other down.

 

[manifold]

If the South had God on the side of their 'righteous' cause they wouldn't have been so soundly defeated.

Obviously God's blessing went to the Union, if you believe in that sort of thing.

 

[NLT]

God has a sense of humor

 

[manifold]

God has a sense of humor

It's said that human suffering is the root of all humor... so yeah, he sure does.

 

[PeterL321]

OK,I know it ...My friends..

 

[del]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

yes

 

[Toro]

God ain't down with slavery and racism, homies ...

 

[whitehall]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

When are religious bigots going to ease up on their own Country?

 

[rightwinger]

God had no problems with slavery

Didn't even make it as one of the Ten Commandments

 

[JWBooth]

Absurd notion that. God picks sides.

 

[manifold]

Absurd notion that. God picks sides.

You don't believe in the concept of good and evil?

 

[whitehall]

Free will allows otherwise normal people to become bigots. The proof is in the post.

 

[hortysir]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

Thinking back to the Tebow threads, didn't you say God doesn't decide winners?

 

[squeeze berry]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

perhaps you should dig one up and ask him

 

[9thIDdoc]

If the South had God on the side of their 'righteous' cause they wouldn't have been so soundly defeated.

Obviously God's blessing went to the Union, if you believe in that sort of thing.

That's not at all obvious. It could be argued that The War of Northern Agression was started largely by Northern Bible thumpers too stupid to know that slavery was on the way out anyway. The North spent most of the war getting it's butt soundly kicked and there was certainly nothing "righteous" about Sherman's rape and murder of civilians and captured Blacks who fought for the South.

 

[whitehall]

How do confederate bible thumpers make peace with the fact that God was clearly on the side of the Union in the Civil War?

denial? avoidance? straight up ignorance?

The conundrum is in the ignorance of the bigots. Some accounts give Union losses at about 350,000 and Confederate losses at about 250,000. The draft riots in New York city may have resulted in the deaths of innocent Black people than in combat.