Website highlights Baptists in Civil War

Crabtownboy · Jan 12, 2011

This web site should be interesting in civil war buffs ... especially if you are a Baptist.

ATLANTA (ABP) -- The American Civil War led Baptists in the South to forsake their historic commitment to the separation of church and state and embrace Christian nationalism, the head of a Baptist history organization says on a new website ... http://www.civilwarbaptists.com/

Bruce Gourley, executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, says the Civil War challenged Baptist convictions that had been hard won by a persecuted minority fighting for religious freedom in Europe and Colonial America.
Defending slavery as an institution ordained by God, Gourley wrote on a new website coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, many Baptist leaders in the South became convinced the newly formed Confederate States of America was God's chosen nation and viewed battlefield service as honoring to God.
"The Christian nationalism embraced by many Baptists in the Confederate States of America watered down their commitment to the separation of church and state and reduced God to the God of the South," Gourley wrote in an article on American Civil War: In Their Own Words, a website he launched several weeks ago.
Gourley said a similar mistake was made in the late 20th and 21st century when "many embraced the myth of America's founding as a Christian nation and denied their own faith heritage of separation of church and state."

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freeatlast · Jan 12, 2011

I think that we have to be ready to say that just because someone holds the name Baptist that they are not above sin or in some cases even saved. The bible is clear if a person does not love his brother who he has seen he cannot love God who he has not seen and is lost. (not a literal quote).

I think that a many a pastors and whole congregations will find that the lake of fire is not to their liking. If we can condemn westboro for their actions, and we should, then we need to also be ready to condemn those who held that slavery was of God, and fought for it and even practiced it.

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