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Unbuckling the Bible Belt from the Legacy of Slavery
Robert S. McElvaine
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/unbuckling-the-bible-belt_b_137782.html
[excerpt]
What is going on in the Bible Belt in this presidential year may be
historic. Much media attention during the presidential primaries was paid
to Mike Huckabee's success in the "Christian" states. The Reverend Governor
Huckabee, we heard over and over again, was winning the "Christian" vote.
"In the Bible Belt," MSNBC's Chris Matthews said of Huckabee, "he
practically owns the place." Such comments obscured the fact that there are
two very different versions of Christianity in this region, both of which
are legacies of antebellum slavery.
The existence of another form of southern Christianity was reflected in a
detail that no one addressed in the primaries: the intriguing fact that
Barack Obama out-polled Huckabee nearly two-to-one in the Bible-Belt South.
The only state of the Bible Belt in which Sen. Obama did not win vastly
more votes than Huckabee was the governor's home state of Arkansas. Looking
at the total votes cast for the two candidates across the Bible Belt
(including Missouri, which is a Border State in both Civil War and Bible
Belt terms) before the Republican nomination was decided, Obama's margin
over Huckabee was 66% to 34%.
Yet when Sen. Obama's success in the South was discussed during the long
primary season, the section that is called the Bible Belt in Gov.
Huckabee's case was described instead as a region with a large
African-American population. Hardly anyone mentions that the "the Bible
Belt" and "the Black Belt" refer to essentially the same part of the
country. That easily overlooked fact is of enormous significance.
Is it mere coincidence that the Bible Belt is also the Black Belt? Why has
biblical literalism held sway so powerfully in the region of the nation
that used to practice and suffer under slavery on a large scale?
[end excerpt]
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS ˇ Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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