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struggle4progress

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Sat Jun 18, 2016, 02:37 PM Jun 2016

Yet another person driven by conscience from church

I've been repudiated

... the Southern Baptists at their annual national convention .. this year .. near Ferguson ... declared that ...
“The Cross and the Confederate flag cannot co-exist without one setting the other on fire” ...

I marked the occasion by attaching a Confederate bumper sticker to my car. I was wearing a Pride of the South cap with Gen. Stonewall Jackson's picture on it ...

I've attended one Southern Baptist church or another since I was a baby ... I suppose now .. I must either burn my Confederate flag and my Civil War books or quit going to church. I'm not going to burn any flag or books ...

There has apparently been a lot of white guilt among Baptists .. although I have never experienced it personally ...
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Yet another person driven by conscience from church (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP
Or he could choose to read better books on the Civil War . . . Journeyman Jun 2016 #1
That poor Klansman SwankyXomb Jun 2016 #2
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