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But What about the U.S. Flag?
Laurence M. Vance
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Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He doesn’t like the Confederate flag. He is upset that his home state of Mississippi “contains the Confederate Battle Flag as part of it.” The Confederate flag makes him wince, even though he is “the descendant of Confederate veterans.”
But what about the U.S. flag? It flew over a slave country for longer than the Confederate flag did. And what does the country currently stand for: war, empire, torture, killing, death, destruction. Just as those on the receiving end of U.S. bombs and bullets. Why does Moore give the U.S. flag a pass? And why in God’s name would Christians pledge to the flag during church services?
Laurence M. Vance
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Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He doesn’t like the Confederate flag. He is upset that his home state of Mississippi “contains the Confederate Battle Flag as part of it.” The Confederate flag makes him wince, even though he is “the descendant of Confederate veterans.”
But what about the U.S. flag? It flew over a slave country for longer than the Confederate flag did. And what does the country currently stand for: war, empire, torture, killing, death, destruction. Just as those on the receiving end of U.S. bombs and bullets. Why does Moore give the U.S. flag a pass? And why in God’s name would Christians pledge to the flag during church services?