As the Confederate States of America inaugurated their first — and only — president, Rev. Basil Manly Sr. stood on stage to offer the official invocation. A leader in the fairly new Southern Baptist Convention formed to defend slavery, Manly was an enslaver and a leading religious voice for secession.
My head hurts when reading the machinations these people indulge in to claim a moral high road. To use Pompey as a justifications for this prinicple is almost laughable. Pompey and Julius Caesar were involved in a bloody war for dominance over Rome and in the conquest of the Mediterranean world. Each may have claimed to have their particular god's approval but their battles nearly broke Rome and created the chaos in the outer colonies including Judea. But I digress. These are the same people who invoke Romans 13 when it suits them. Also to advocate violence is in direct contradiction to the Jesus and God that I know. I fear their god is power at all cost.
My head hurts when reading the machinations these people indulge in to claim a moral high road. To use Pompey as a justifications for this prinicple is almost laughable. Pompey and Julius Caesar were involved in a bloody war for dominance over Rome and in the conquest of the Mediterranean world. Each may have claimed to have their particular god's approval but their battles nearly broke Rome and created the chaos in the outer colonies including Judea. But I digress. These are the same people who invoke Romans 13 when it suits them. Also to advocate violence is in direct contradiction to the Jesus and God that I know. I fear their god is power at all cost.