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Put away everything you've been taught about American history for a mere moment and consider this: There are stark similarities between our own U.S. flag, and what people believe to the archtypical "Stars and Bars" Confederate flag. Both are red, white, and blue, and both have stars. Although the current U.S. flag typifies the unification of 50 states, the 13 stars on the Confederate flag represented those states which defied at that time, an oppressive federal government.
That's where the similarity of the two flags ends. The ones flown during the Confederacy also had the Christian image of a cross, while the one we we fly today, don't. An interesting notation about the cross, is the orientation of the cross on the flag..
"The claim states the blue cross represents the Christian cross of Saint Andrew. In reality, the flag’s design explicitly sought to avoid ecclesiastical meaning, according to Kaye. In the book “The Confederate Battle Flag”, historian John M. Coski explains that the cross was turned diagonally with the explicit intention of not being a Christian symbol. As Coski points out, the creator of the flag said he wanted it to be "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical" ( here ). Coski further documents how according to Miles the diagonal cross was preferable because “it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects)”
Please disregard the last paragraph of the article, a disclaimer which was added by the "Reuters Fact Check team."
Fact check: The origins of the colors and symbols of the Confederate flag.
That's where the similarity of the two flags ends. The ones flown during the Confederacy also had the Christian image of a cross, while the one we we fly today, don't. An interesting notation about the cross, is the orientation of the cross on the flag..
"The claim states the blue cross represents the Christian cross of Saint Andrew. In reality, the flag’s design explicitly sought to avoid ecclesiastical meaning, according to Kaye. In the book “The Confederate Battle Flag”, historian John M. Coski explains that the cross was turned diagonally with the explicit intention of not being a Christian symbol. As Coski points out, the creator of the flag said he wanted it to be "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical" ( here ). Coski further documents how according to Miles the diagonal cross was preferable because “it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects)”
Please disregard the last paragraph of the article, a disclaimer which was added by the "Reuters Fact Check team."
Fact check: The origins of the colors and symbols of the Confederate flag.
