See my previous posting.
I also recommend reading the following article. It is by David A. Love, at CNN, "Lynching re-emerges in new rhetoric of hate." This type of violence is already happening.
This is an extract from a draft about the Sons of Confederate Veterans offering for sale the book "Cultures in Conflict" by Charles A. Jennings. Unitarians should also be careful.
Most ominously was a book review in the
Jan./Feb. 2016 Confederate Veteran,
Boyd D. Cathey reviews “Cultures in Conflict: The Union Desecration of Southern
Churches and Cemeteries,” by Charles A. Jennings. The publisher given is Truth
in History in Owasso, Oklahoma. This is the same publisher and city given for
the book at the www.biblicalandsouthernstudies.com website.
Cathey’s review states that in the book
Jennings explains that “the Northern and Southern states were growing
dramatically apart, not just politically and economically, but also religiously
and culturally,” and that “by the 1830s and 1840s, the South was becoming more
conservative religiously and culturally, while in many areas of the North, the
older Puritanism had evolved into Unitarianism and liberal evangelicalism.”
Cathey then asks the question, “But how
to explain the rage and sickening zeal of many Northern soldiers and the
ravages they committed when they came South?” Cathey refers to the books
forward written by Charles Baker stating:
In his forward to the
book, Dr. Charles Baker attributes this lapse into what was basically barbarism
to the collapse of orthodox Puritanism and the increasing dominance of liberal
Protestantism.
Cathey quotes Thornwell’s statement
about the true nature of the conflict as previously quoted in this chapter. The
book thus makes the desecration of churches and cemeteries in the South,
“barbarism,” “ravages” done with “sickening zeal” due to the “collapse of
orthodox Puritanism” which Cathey had also referred to as “the older
Puritanism” having “evolved into Unitarianism and liberal evangelicalism.”
The Truth in History web site currently
(7/2/2016) has a web page article, “Jewish Hatred Against Jesus Christ.” In
another article, “The House of Israel and The House of Judah,” asserts that the
ancient Israelites weren’t the ancestors of modern day Jews. Another article,
“The Seventy Weeks of Daniel,” explains the history of the persecutions of the
Jews as the punishments by Jesus upon the Jews for their rejecting him and the
destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans as another divine punishment.[i]
At the Truth in History website Charles
Jennings is listed as the contact person with the phone number matching the
phone number in the Confederate Veteran
review.[ii]
Also, earlier archived web pages at archive.org have Charles A. Jennings as the
website author in the “About Us” description.[iii]
Dr. Charles E. Baker was the Chaplain
in Chief of the SCV in the early 1990s.[iv]
The Truth in History website has listed
this book on their website in the past and it can be found on archived web
pages at archive.org. However, now you would not find it on the Truth in
History website, but you will find it sold at the Biblical and Southern Studies
website which was founded by Rondel Rumburg, past Chaplain-in-Chief of the SCV,
and the editor of the Chaplains’ Corps
Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is the editor of the 3rd
edition “Chaplain’s Handbook,” for the Chaplains in the SCV.[v]
Boyd D. Cathey was on the Editorial
Advisor Committee of The Journal of
Historical Review of the Institute for Historical Review, according to an
archived page from 2001.[vi]
According to Scott Miller, University Programs Coordinator at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., “The central institution of
Holocaust denial in the United States is the Institute for Historical Review
(IHR), located in southern California, and founded (with a deceptively scholarly
name) by Willis Carto.”[vii]
The offer for sale of this book as well as the
book review could possibly introduce SCV members to the Truth of History
publisher and possibly Truth of History’s website’s promotion of what could be
characterized as virulent anti-Semitism without the book review referencing
anything about Jewish people.
In regards to Unitarians, in being made
historical villains whose religion resulted in “desecrations” and “ravages”
done with “sickening zeal,” it is entirely reasonable that someone might decide
to avenge these alleged historical crimes with an act of violence.
[iv] Baker, Charles Estell, “Chaplain’s
Comments,” Confederate Veteran, Jan.-Feb. 1993, pp. 44. This issue doesn’t have
a volume or number.
[v] The website www.biblicalandsouthernstudies.com seems to be primarily devoted to
publishing H. Rondel Rumburg’s writings, but doesn’t give much information who
is in charge. The page http://www.biblicalandsouthernstudies.com/?page=shop/privacy, does list H. Rondel Rumburg as
the contact individual for the group. However, Gary Lee Roper does mention that
Rondel Rumburg is the founder of the Society for Biblical and Southern Studies
in “Antebellum Slavery: An Orthodox Christian View,” Gary Lee Roper publisher,
2008, pp. 179. The first issue of the Chaplain’s
Corps Chronicles of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Jan. & Feb. 2006,
has him as Chaplain-in-Chief writing an editorial, http://www.scv.org/pdf/chaplains/2006_Jan.pdf, printed out 7/3/2016, and he is
listed as the editor in the June 2016 issue, http://www.scv.org/pdf/chaplains/2016_Jun.pdf, printed out 7/3/16. For the
listing of the 3rd edition of the “Enlarged Sesquicentennial
Edition” of the “Chaplain’s Handbook,” http://chaplain-in-chief.com/catalog.html, printed out 7/3/2016.
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