NOVAE MILITIAE

I wonder how many of the Yankee dead are spinning in their graves when they consider the fruit of their work: this decadent, pornographied, industrialized, materialistic, technocratic, dumbed down, politically correct, feminized, homosexualized, hip-hop, secularized, litigious, commercialized "Union" of theirs.  A Union now being overrun by illegals from South of the border.  I wonder how many of them wish for a second chance to join the right side. I even wonder if America's Lord, God and Savior Abraham Lincoln himself hasn't experienced, as C. S. Lewis called it, “the particular clarity that Hell affords.”

Not that I will say with absolute certainty that our national demigod is in hell, or that Yankee soldiers who have passed on obsess about such things.  It's just that I know Heaven is as much about justice as it is about grace, and so I do think the departed dead have to work these and other things out.  That's one of the particular advantages the Catholic Christian has over the Protestant.   There is no cheap grace, but with the Protestants we would say it's nevertheless all of grace.

It is clear as day to me.  The Federals' victory in 1865 eventuated in the destruction of America, the destruction of that which the best of the Founding Fathers held dear.  It is accordingly just as clear to me that if America is to be saved, it will have to reconcile itself with Confederate ideals (sans slavery, of course).   Interestingly, the Jewish neoconservative Dennis Prager (whom I highly esteem despite his neoconservatism) once said this (I paraphrase): "In the 19th century, it was the North that saved the Union.  In the 21st, it will be the South that saves the Union."

Now, I think his statement is in need of due qualification, but his essential point is well-taken.  Culturally, it is the South - the Southern Confederacy to be precise - that will save the day.

Poor Yankees in the grave.  Pray for us.