Letter: Confederate flag reminds us races must be separated

Since one Confederate flag was lowered from the State House grounds, hundreds have been raised in defiance across the state. These new banners now grace homes and businesses and flutter in parade behind trucks, cars and even mopeds.

This grassroots defiance of liberal totalitarian political correctness stems from various motives, but true love and true hatred of the flag are rooted in a shared (and largely intuitive) understanding of the flag’s symbolism: It is in its very essence a Christian banner flying in a mostly unbelieving and anti-Christian world.

Specifically, the Confederate flag symbolizes the two interconnected Christian principles of ordered liberty and race realism.

People who are spiritually lost and unprincipled hate the flag because it is a Christian reminder that unprincipled people should be deprived of the freedom to do wrong to others with impunity. The flag is hated even more by deluded egalitarians because it points to God-created racial differences and to the God-ordained need for racial separation in this earthly life.

In churches today you will hear nothing about the fall of man and the inevitability of slavery, both to sin and to man. There are no sermons about the punishment of Noah’s son Ham or the story of Nimrod and the tower of Babel. Modern “enlightened” folk dismiss such stories as myth, but at their peril.

The Confederate flag stands for all of God’s Word. That is why it is hated and shunned by those who discard either all or part of the Bible. And that is why, with its flashing cross and noble history, the battle flag of the South is irrepressible.