Tom’s Big Picture

Here, as promised in my first post about the War Between the States and its implications, is presented a PDF of Robert L. Dabney’s A Defense of Virginia and the South. Both as a debater and a Christian, I hesitate to even attempt any sort of defense of the Confederacy, when Dabney has done such a wonderful job. He rejects superfluous arguments of both sides, and reduces claims to their moral and Scriptural essentials. Most startling is his claim that a verse in one of the epistles to Timothy makes no sense unless we see it as a Providential warning against the coming of the Abolitionists and other Equalitarian zealots. You’ll have to read to find out more.

When we see the reign of death that the false god of Equality has brought to our world, whether through Communism or feminism (i.e. abortion), Dabney’s prophecy is even more startling, given that he saw it in only its embryonic form.

Click Here to Download Dabney’s A Defense of Virginia and the South

For those of you who homeschool, this would make a great supplement for high school history.  Biographical information about Dabney, a theologian and soldier born in Virginia who died a Texan, can be found here.

Now, many of you may be wondering why this is important.

There seem to be two responses when dealing with the War Between the States and the ethical implications of the eventual casus belli for Northern repudiation of constitutional limits of federal power and aggression towards the self-determining efforts of the Southern states.

Response one, most common, is wholesale condemnation of the South as a sort of proto-Nazi society, with some exceptional individuals and interesting history surrounding the war, but ultimately no moral justification for its existence due to the horrible injustices perpetrated by its societal structure. Conservative historians have branded this the “Nazification of the Confederacy”.

This seems to be the default explanation both secular and Christian. Of course, from the Christian side, it is explained that the South, though more Christian than the North, suffered God’s wrath for punishment of the sin of slavery.

Response two, less common but still represented, is to entirely ignore the slavery issue and pretend the war was entirely about state’s rights (which it was, partially). Many “neo-Confederates” do this well, making ridiculous arguments to walk around the slavery issue, and pretending that a surviving or revived Confederacy would somehow miraculously solve all of our country’s racial problems because it would avoid the “divisive” interference of the federal government. This is wishful thinking at best (though based on some truth, as the feds do exacerbate baseline racial tension with their policies), and disrespectful to the past at worst. Slavery was a major issue of the war, and to let the Nazification charges go unanswered, or to make ridiculous arguments about the Confederacy being some sort of lost multicultural paradise, gives credence to the very serious moral charges leveled at our ancestors and their society.

It’s important to understand that these charges do not exist in a vacuum. The Globalist Elites are attempting to impose a new religion onto our society, and that religion is Equality. In the name of the false god Equality, all national borders can be erased (thus easing the way for cheap labor and universal consumer markets) and the relatively small minority of people in this world who cause trouble for the elites (a large number of whom are Scots-Irish in the South) can be marginalized.

That’s the purpose of the attacks- to make us feel guilty for who we are so we stop resisting attempts to remake our nation in the image of Babel. And like all good cults, Equality merely twists the truth instead of telling outright falsehoods.

One of these twisting is the elevation of the issue of slavery out of proportion to its actual importance- and since Southerners have always been at the forefront of resisting the Cult of Equality, one convenient use of this twisting is to marginalize the moral authority of those who question the Cult’s edicts.

With Dabney’s help, and not just for Southerners but for all Americans (as the elites, having marginalized the South morally, are attempting to do the same to the heritage of the entire nation), we can regain our sense of moral authority and have renewed confidence in the righteousness of our resistance to the Globalist agenda.