We need to recognise that the greatest enemy of liberty is government itself. It will always have the tendency to try to expand its power. We seem to have forgotten in this day that government is supposed to be the servant, not the master of the people. The two competing world-views that I've attempted to describe and place within an historical context are ultimately incompatible within a single society. It would seem prudent and wise to give some consideration to the ultimate separation of these two groups into autonomous, self-governing societies.
Coercion is nothing more than tyranny.
The old Calvinist theology that took such deep root in the South nearly 400 years ago, continues to give hope to those of us that still believe in the Republic of our ancestors and the principles of limited government, states rights, and local autonomy. We accept that we live in a fallen world, and are fallen creatures in need of the saving power and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. We continue to pray that the destruction of the old Republic in 1865 was merely the ebb of the receding wave that in God's providential wisdom will soon be sweeping over us.