Kerokeronim (mk2boogaloo@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 23:39:53 JST
Kerokeronim"Lee was firm in establishing respect and Christian discipline. He wanted his soldiers to be model citizens instead of like the invaders of the South. One chaplain wrote, “It is refreshing to see so many young converts, all in their freshness and vigor, serving the Lord and full of redeeming love.” He added, “Our meetings are assuming a new and interesting phase. All the recent converts meet twice a day by themselves, and pray and talk over their wants and necessities to each other, and everyone who attends must lead in prayer.”
Soldiers as well found themselves constantly seeking God and His will. Historical accounts claim, “Confederate soldiers were largely converted in mass revivals.” An “estimated one out of five Confederate soldiers were said to have decided for Christ, or a total of 150,000 conversions.” "
Now I wonder how religious was the Northerners at that time. Since they're more diverse (Italians, Germans, Irish etc) than the South.
@MK2boogaloo Several scholars have discussed the religious disparity between North and South, with the North becoming more "progressive", i.e. anti-Christ, in thinking. You had false religions popping up as well, like Transcendental Unitarianism and Mormonism.
You see the rabid and fervent clinging to a false morality ("EMANCIPATION OR DEATH") in North by many of these apostates, heretics, and heathens as they replace Christ with a universal abstract humanity.
There's certainly more to this, but I need to research more.
@SuperSnekFriend the recent ideas have been there for a long time now? I kinda doubt that they're progressives on everything since there were lots of Puritans in the North back then. Are you talking about the people or the elites in power btw?
@MK2boogaloo A bit of both with heavy leaning towards the elite from the 1840's to the Civil War, I certainly don't believe the apostasy was universal or even in the majority of Northerners. Like I said, I really need to study this topic.
@SuperSnekFriend I watched a certain video which kinda makes me interested in the subject of Northern belief in religion. Here's the video, it talked about Lincoln's belief up to the end of his life:
@BroDrillard@SuperSnekFriend Remsburg destroys the idea that Lincoln could possible have ever changed from being a lifelong infidel. Lincoln wrote a book trying to disprove and destroy Christianity. The darkness of "Honest Abe" was similar to the darkness of Karl Marx. That is why the heretical Christian north flocked to Lincoln and supported him in his cause of destroying the Bible Belt South.
Lincoln's main mentor was the Boston Unitarian Minister, infidel Theodore Parker, one of the secret six who sponsored John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Interesting detail about Parker: His paternal grandfather was John Parker, the leader of the Lexington militia at the Battle of Lexington.
@MK2boogaloo Yeah, Lincoln being an "upright Christian man" is a myth that should have died with him. Apparently, apotheizing Lincoln and damning the South was a common theme in New England pulpits within weeks of Lincoln's assassination.
@MK2boogaloo@BroDrillard From page vii of the preface, Remsburg knew that Lincoln was a founding father and promoter of the Judeo-anti-Christ civilization that was springing out of the dead America the WASP's established.
@MK2boogaloo@BroDrillard Remsburg was an infamous 19th-century militant atheist who promoted the predecessor of Christ Mythicism which plagues the internet and beginning-level and mid-level intellectual discourse on religion and politics. He was a Richard Carrier or Christopher Hitchens before they were born.
@MK2boogaloo@BroDrillard On that topic, what makes me go "What the fuck?" is figuring out how James Kennedy, a faithful Reformed preacher (Rest in God's Peace), could read Edwin Stanton's claim that Lincoln was "the most perfect ruler of men that the world has ever known" with a straight face and not step back and go, "Wait a moment! This is blasphemous to everything I stand for and the true Ruler of All Men. Was Lincoln really the good guy here?"