Charlottesville: white supremacists are fundamentally anti-American and anti-Christian

Aug 14, 2017 by Jill

from Archbishop Cranmer:

Charlottesville has gone downhill a bit since The Waltons: the town where John Boy negotiated his first bank loan, Jim-Bob learned about his dead twin brother, and grandma and grandpa once got stranded in a snowstorm, has become a place of street-brawls, swastikas, Nazi salutes, hatred and murder.

White supremacists have descended upon the gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, not so much on the trail of the lonesome pine as to rail against the loathsome swine – ie, the black-skinned, brown-skinned minorities; atheists, Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians. Basically, anyone who is non-white and non-Christian is an ‘alien’ intent on ‘invasion’ to ‘take away the freedom of the masses’, and this must be resisted at all costs. And so they gathered with their Klu Klux Klan torches and neo-Nazi banners, chanting ‘White lives matter’ interspersed with ‘You will not replace us’ and ‘Jew will not replace us’. They say they want to realise the Trump prophecy to ‘Make America great again’, so they pledge to ‘take our country back’, though back from whom isn’t quite clear.

What is clear is that the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee from a Charlottesville Park has become an excuse for the assertion of a very ugly identity. Some revel in referring to it as ‘right wing’, as though the KKK, Nazi militia and assorted Alt-Right fascists who rail against the political, economic, and media elites are just a more robust expression of Reagan-Thatcher ideology of individual liberty, free markets and small-state conservatism. A ‘Unite the Right’ rally isn’t an a assertion of free-speech or a declaration of Christian morality: it is purposely provocative and intentionally violent. They are defending their heritage, as they see it, from the black-brown-Muslim-favouring-PC-identity politics of the liberal-left. If they don’t engage in some urgent ethnic cleaning, they will themselves be cleansed from the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Jesus must weep.

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