White Too Long: Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.

OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising · Jan 21, 2021 · 32m

The Lost Cause

Before and during the Civil War, Southern Baptist leaders argued that slavery was just and the slaveholding South represented the pinicle of human civilization. After the South lost, they began to espouse the idea of the Lost Cause—that the war on Earth may be lost, but God would ultimately redeem the South with the Second Coming. This idea became widespread throughout the South, and can still be seen today in Confederate Monuments like the one in Richmond, VA which reads "God Will Vindicate' in Latin, a direct reference to the idea of the Lost Cause, and the salvation awaiting…