[Vision2020] Southern Fantasy

[Donovan Arnold]

Micheal,
  
  "The  land was not as filled with idolatry, hatred, bitterness, disloyalty,  adultery, infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism, immorality,  relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety, and just  about any cultural non-good the western world spent 1500 years  enumerating."
  
 Sorry but you will find the overwhelming  majority of historians will disagree with this statement. These things  have been in full force in every human civilization since recorded  history, and probably before. 
  
  The only place where these things to do plague human society is in Heaven.
  
  "idolatry,  hatred, bitterness, disloyalty, adultery, infidelity, dishonor,  laziness, paganism, immorality, relativism, general cultural breakdown,  statism, impiety, and just about any cultural non-good" was not  invented in the last 150 years in the United States. 
  
  If you ever talk to people that are 90+ years of age they will tell you  that some things have gotten better, and some things have not, but for  the most part, things are better.
  
  Take Care,
  
  Donovan J Arnold
  
  
Michael <metzler at moscow.com> wrote:                                      Jim,
     
    Thanks  for the note.  Idealizing the past is precisely what I intended  not to communicate in my short response.  I think that both the  north and the south had a more respectable culture than the one we live  in now. This was merely a weak comparison.   It was a time a  bit more saturated with fidelity, honor, morality, discipline, respect,  love, chastity, beauty, architecture, religion, love of God, etc.   The land was not as filled with idolatry, hatred, bitterness,  disloyalty, adultery, infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism,  immorality, relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety,  and just about any cultural non-good the western world spent 1500 years  enumerating. That&#8217;s all I was referring to. 
     
    Half of my country came and destroyed another half of my country, and  it is not clear that we are better off because of it. 
     
    The  North&#8217;s propaganda for the war was able to continue since the North won  the war. The North was no utopia for blacks and the real primary  motivation for the war was not to extend mercy to blacks (says many  historical scholars as I understand it).  I would certainly call  this a more balanced view of the civil war.  The years Wilkins has  spent researching primary documents certainly puts him in a better  position than many of the teachers who had their way with us, including  high school teachers, college teaching assistants, and even history  professors who&#8217;s expertise was not the civil war.  I don&#8217;t  privilege Wilkin&#8217;s scholarship; however, I&#8217;ve heard enough primary  documentation to know the confederate flag is not the same thing as the  Nazi swastika. 
     
    Michael Metzler 
     
    
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