True, but the Methodist connection was a very strong one. So was the Presbyterian one.
The Klans’ height was in the 1920’s but it remained a serious menace up through the 1950’s. With the end of segregation, it seemed to implode.
But the Klan is a funny thing. It has a LONG history going back to the post Civil War and during that time it flared up, died down, and repeated itself again and again so, like Frankenstein, it has the potential to rise from the grave at any moment.
I think the reasson it may be dead for good is more people are better educated today, the population has become more ethnically diverse yet at the same time more culturally and biologically amalgamated.
I’m a white Protestant. I don’t hate any religion and respect them all with the singular exception of Islam which I view as a cult, not a legitimate religion.
I don’t see anyone’s religion or race as any of my business as long as they consider themselves AMERICANS.
Today, conservative Protestants and Catholics should realize they have more in common with each other than they differ. Right to life, sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, an oppostion to acceptance of homosexuality as a life style and most importantly - the worship of the same God Jesus Christ.
And Christians and Jews today, I beleive, recognize themselves as cousins. They come out of the same religious background in Hellenistic Judaea.
ZULU:
I agree that orthodox Confessional Protestants and Traditional Catholics have more in common than not, and thus should, while not compromising core theological differences, recognize the theological agreements that we have and see each other as allies against the forces of both milatant secularism and miltant Islam.