Great Christian men. The Civil War will never end, will it?
The morons do realize that the 20th Maine held Little Round Top at Gettysburg and in doing so probably saved the Union. After they ran out of bullets they charged with bayonets and defeated a large force. They then held their position until they were relieved. They deserve a ballad.
Oh ffs, just play this.
What a knife to the heart of the memory of Joshua Chamberlain! There isn’t a real Republican left in the Republican party is there? If they have this attitude in the Maine, can anyone be surprised why Republicans act they way they do in the former states of the confederacy or the border states like Missouri and Kentucky?
“I find it a little bit, we are united states, we are not Union, we are united states. And I find it just a little bit – I won’t say offensive but that’s what I mean – to say that we’re any better than the South was,”
“I am a lover of history and especially a lover of the civil war period and regardless of what side people fought on, they were fighting for something they truly believed in,” Reed said, according to the Beacon. “Many of them were great Christian men on both sides. They fought hard and they were fighting for states’ rights as they saw them.”
“Many of them were great Christian men on both sides. They fought hard and they were fighting for states’ rights as they saw them.”
No! They were fighting to maintain the institution of slavery. White people OWNING Black people. An evil purpose in support of an evil institution. Full Stop!
There’s nothing Christian about it. The South contorted their religious faith to justify their inhumanity. The blasted landscape of Gehenna is too good a resting place for them.
Yup, there’s no difference between racists and the opponents of racism.
Republicans withdrew their plan to offer “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” as a replacement after being taught that it was actually a song about the Underground Railroad and not, in fact, a celebration of happy slaves picking cotton.
The shame of the Civil war is they still wrap themselves in the Flag of Slavery as if it was glory it’s self. Their only glory would have been finding a foot Dr. that gave them bone spurs to go along with their cockadoodledoos.
“to say that we’re any better than the South”
WE WERE: THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
WE STILL ARE: THAT’S THE WHOLE PROBLEM.
“Some Republican state lawmakers in the northeastern state were concerned that the ballad chosen cast too negative of a light on the Confederacy…”
The “Party of Lincoln” in 2019, ladies and gentlemen.
Poor old Abe vomits in his tomb.
Just wait until fat Hitler speaks from his Memorial…
Elsewhere in the world of bigotry and intolerance.
I love how the 2nd quoted guy doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, while at the same time, he’s casting a Civil War hero as an antifas member.
That takes skill.
“I am a lover of history and especially a lover of the civil war period and regardless of what side people fought on, ***they were fighting for something they truly believed in,***” Reed said, according to the Beacon.
So is ISIS. What evs................I like to imagine that the statue of Lincoln will rise from his seat and, like the Commandatore in Don Giovanni, drag Trump down into the depths of the Inferno.
“I am a lover of history and especially a lover of the civil war period and regardless of what side people fought on, they were fighting for something they truly believed in,”
Yeah…Freedom and equality on one side v. white supremacy and slavery on the other. You can’t be a lover of history if you’re so uncomfortable with the reality of it that you rewrite it.
“Many of them were great Christian men on both sides."
Where have we heard this before? Hmmmmmmm…
"They fought hard and they were fighting for states’ rights as they saw them.”
Yeah, they EXPLICITLY fought for the “state right” to keep slaves…
Who held the mic out to these people and when is it my turn to slap them for failing at journalism?
Many of them were great Christian men on both sides.
By “great Christian men,” did you mean to say, “very fine people?”
Biggest mistake we made was to let them back into the Union.