Deo Vindice (vanity)

Vanity | June 18, 2020 | cmj328

[cmj328]

Deo Vindice, often translated as "God our defender", was the motto adopted by the Confederate States of America in late April, 1864. Vindex, the underlying Latin noun, is also the root of the word vindicate.

A year later, in 1865, it was undeniable that God had not preserved the Confederate States of America from destruction.

And by recent years, even the reputation of the Confederacy, the last refuge of hope in "Deo Vindice", had fallen to the point where her human defenders barely raise a whisper.

So it was with some astonishment that we are watching the long-awaited fall of Confederate statues in the ancient capital of Richmond occur at the same time or after statues of Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, John Greenleaf Whittier, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the founder of the Boy Scouts, and St. Junipero Serra, who had recently been canonized by Pope Francis.

By treating Confederate symbols the same as these greats of American, Western and modern civilization, the iconoclasts have made a statement of non-distinction. It is as if in one great battle, all the heroes of our civilization's past have fallen together. And right on the front lines, brother and brother, fighting together with these unsullied greats, are the much maligned men of the Confederate States of America.

Such are the ways of Providence, that it has taken a mob of leftists and Black Lives Matter, to restore to the pantheon of civilization's great men the leaders and soldiers of the doomed Confederacy.

Deo vindice, indeed.

[LeoWindhorse]

Deo Vindice!

2nd Lt Cmdr

SCV

[Oscar in Batangas]

An old rebel yell from modern times:

Save your Dixie Cups, friends. The South’s gonna rise again!