For those who would resort to the “No True Christian” argument, a fallacious one, let me remind you that the slave holders backed up their practices with Bible verses.
Furthermore, yes, Jesus is quoted as saying, “Love your enemies,” but no one in the Bible said more about hell than Jesus.
In 1861, Robert Lewis Dabney — Stonewall Jackson's chief of staff and the Confederacy's most influential theologian — built a framework that sanctified overwhelming violence as divine order. That theology didn't die at Appomattox. It transmitted through Lost Cause Christianity, through decades of churches teaching that racial hierarchy w…