On Confederate flag, southern white Christians do some soul searching
By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 2:35 PM ET, Sun June 21, 2015
... Barnabas Piper, a Southern Baptist author who writes about the intersection of Christianity and culture ... said he has never before seen white southern conservative Christians seriously discuss the role that the flag -- which, depending on one's point of view, recalls either rebellion, southern pride or slavery -- plays in perpetuating racist values like the ones shared by Roof ... Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention ... wrote about the need for Christians with Southern conservative sympathies to let go of their allegiance to the flag ... "The cross and the Confederate flag cannot coexist without one setting the other on fire" ... Mike Cosper, a pastor at Sojourn Community Church, a Southern Baptist church in Louisville, Kentucky, told CNN ... "I feel compelled to love my brothers and sisters and to empathize with them when they say 'This is what this means. This is what it communicates.' The thing that needs to come down" ...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/20/politics/confederate-flag-christians-south/
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