Love the quotes. With regard to academic history and the South, what is your opinion of Univ. of South Carolina historian Lacy K. Ford's work?

How about this:

"History never repeats itself: historians repeat each other."
A.J.P. Taylor

Very well said! In my work I am often confronted with people that proclaim not to accept God and are more than happy to live amongst people with Christian values, not acknowledging there own sin. These people are asleep in there faith but alive in serving their own greed. Mr.Peters...... these people do not know the extent that they have embraced the post modern world, thinking that to be a politically correct liberal is the desired way of life. How can I explain to these people the errors of their ways. I am sure they would reject the term Marxist.

While I was discussion the issue and having the debate with my "colleagues," the audience which I hoped was being attentive was that of the few students in the room with us.

I cannot attest to any testimoney which the Holy Spirit might have made to an individual discutant using my words or if anyone responded to the Holy Spirit if he did.

I can only say that my "ploy," as is were, was sufficient to shut them up and block their attempt to deconstruct my use of Calhoun as I attempted to bring up "concurrent majority."

What I can attest to is that two of the about fifteen students, with several thereof in the background listening, asked me questions about the "Marxist narrative,' saying that they had never heard of it and about "concurrent majority," having never heard of it either.

So, far me, it was a tactical ploy and a tactical battle won. God, in His own design, may well have turned a head or even saved a soul. He has not revealed it to me, nor is He obligated to do so. My task is to do my duty with the light which He has given me. He will make of it what He will.

As a sidebar on slavery, were I a young parent dying and were I thereupon told by a magistrate that my young children had the option to grow up as free spirits in the home of Rosie O'Donnell or as chattel slaves in the household of Bishop Leonidas Polk, with no other choice, they'd be off the the plantation.

Eventually, every ox is gored.

The empire such as it is, will unwind. Odds are most of us will be alive long enough to see that happening, which we have long expected, become manifest. Is anyone concerned when an infant falls while learning to walk? No, the child goes from strength to strength. When the aged totter we fear and yet know that denying that knowledge will not forestall the inevitable parting. What now does the former Republic resemble, a strapping child or a dissipated rogue slinking off to some yet lower place to expire?

I think you should ask robert m. peters. I wasn't there.

I'm sorry, PcH, but I don't think this is right. Those who don't believe in God don't believe in sin, you're right. I think that that goes without saying. But just because nonbelievers take delight in Christians standing condemned of sin before "their God" doesn't mean they've tacitly begun to believe in God or sin. It means they enjoy watching Christians being caught in their own web. They enjoy pointing and shouting "Hypocrisy!"

It's true that nonbelievers will sometimes engage in "sin talk," but that's only when talking about subjects they agree with Christians on (which ain't much); race-based slavery, for instance. In a case like that they feel a certain solidarity with Christians on a moral level, although they still deny the existence of God. They think it is Christians who have seen the light and come over to their modern, enlightened way of thinking, so they are willing to give a little.

These post-modernest struggle with the terms “sin” and “crime,” since the term “sin” places God into the picture, however grudgingly they would keep Him out; and the word “crime” means that there had to be a statute against the act. In their paradigm, issues of race and gender are the cardinal sins, and social justice and equality are the cardinal virtues. The Marxist narrative is built very tightly around these “concepts.”

I think you scored quite a coup.

It is also funny how they spend both so much time defining the world in terms of race and denying that race exists. They blame everything on white people, but don't seem to realize that makes them white supremacist. You put them in their own trap: they hate God and don't believe He exists, but they were more than happy to entertain the thought that Southerners could possibly be sinners, which belies their unbelief.

By admitting God for a moment, they acknowledged an objective standard for truth, and their post-modern house of cards collapsed. I'll bet someone there noticed that besides you, so you may have led that someone to Christ...