St. Andrews. I went to my church on Sunday, the Presbyterian church. There were no people with pointy hats, white robes, or sheets on. It begin its roots in equality for all under God. Here in the South, it was one of the few churches (quite awhile ago) where blacks and whites attended church together prior to the American Civil War (War between the States) and afterwards. My Scottish ancestors were Quakers and Protestants and they did not believe in nor practice slavery because they came here almost 17 generations ago. I hate it when someone who has never lived here quotes opinions that are not based on historical fact. So, a British guy was trying to say that the Klan was caused by Scottish Presbyterians. He was wrong. I think that John Knox with his promotion of equality for all under God argues that this idea was wrong (John Knox himself was made a slave for his beliefs in equality) and that the following facts do as well: The majority of early Scottish arrived here as Quakers and Protestants who were against slavery and maintained the underground railroad; The historical sharing of the Scottish Presbyterian church pews for both blacks and whites inside the same church in the Southeast and all over the United States of America prior to the civil war and after (they went to the same church), no segregation; The fact that there were other ethnic groups and other religions that were not Protestant or Christians but were KKK members; KKK was not specific to one religion. There is just plain evidence to contradict this British guys opinion. The older term to describe people from other countries that made this type of commentary used to be called provacateur. It is easy to see why the Irish so tragically fought themselves over religion for so long, they had provacateurs from another country stepping in all the time. We are America, we have gained from the experience of the Irish, our ancestors, our brothers and sisters in spirit in Ireland and we are more educated now. We remember our own culture which is decidedly different from that across the pond. We do not practice discrimination in my church nor in any other church that I would choose to be a member of. We have a U.S. Constitution that protects all peoples rights. This in spite of the fact, that the British offered the South (factual documents) during the Civil War an opportunity to fight against our President Abraham Lincoln. We did not have a well educated society at that time, with rule of law firmly established. War was seen as a matter of diplomacy and was practiced far more frequently than it is now. The South being people of honor chose not to join the British and not to betray their own ideals and the highest ideals of this present country that we have today.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:33:13 +0000
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