Has America finally been defeated by the Confederacy?

[carpetbagger]

7. I would differ with the Christian values part

Christian groups were front and center in the Union Civil War effort (my grandmother grew up in a Swedish offshoot of Henry Ward Beecher's church). They were front and center in the high tide of the Northern advance (Baptist minister Martin Luther King leading children on a march in Birmingham).

What we're seeing is a neutering over nearly a century of progressive Christianity by a well-funded movement that replaced a living gospel with a focus on personal reward and holiness defined by opposition to selected outsiders.