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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
I can't help thinking of those who proclaim the "ancient landmarks" holy....
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None of those "landmarks" even existed before about 1937 or so - except Jesus' name baptism and "speaking in tongues" as evidence of the HG which came about around the turn of the last century. Neither is hardly "ancient."
I find it striking that the rhetoric used to substantiate these
innovations (for that's what they really are) is so similar to the Southern rhetoric used to support slavery and then, later, Jim Crow.
"Our Southern Heritage" and "Our beloved institutions and rights..." Give me a break. My family was from the South and was very much a part of Southern History and even fought to establish our rights in the Revolution. There are road signs and historical landmarks marking the homes, battlefields and other sites where my family lived and died.
One famous ancestor's home is even a "Living Museum" now - complete with paid African-American actors portraying the "slaves" who allegedly lived on that plantation: But according to all the church records and Federal and State census materials, my ancestor never owned a slave. Not one. He called his home "Harmony Hall" because he was one of those wacky religious and national utopiarians.
I know this sounds like a bit of a tangent - but it's just an example of how convoluted some people's "history" has become. "Slavery" wasn't a "Southern Heritage." Most Southerners suffered economically at the hands of the ruling slave aristocracy. We were happy to see it go. Jim Crow was a racist innovation and NOT something that had had longstanding support in Southern communities.
Forbidding women to cut their hair was an innovation of the 1930s. The "pants" thing, though based upon older worldly customs, was added at about the same time.
"Ancient landmarks." "Our Godly Heritage..." Gimme a break. Those guys just make stuff up and then call it an "ancient landmark."