The Confederacy was a Christian Country
The civil War was about the idea of a Christian people separating from a humanist government. THE US was Humanist and the CSA was Christian.

 the United States states in the in the beginning of the constitution, "We the people"  never mentioning  the Lord once in the whole document and the country was founded , exists and will continue as a humanistic government as the USSR was founded.  JOHN FEA in article 'The Confederacy's "Christian Nation"' for Pathos 'Benjamin Morgan Palmer, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans, called it [the CSA Constitution] “a truly Christian patriot’s prayer.” He blasted the “perilous atheism” of the U.S. Constitution, adding that its framers had been too tinctured with the kind of “free-thinking” and “infidel spirit” that was often associated with the “horror of the French Revolution.”' (https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2011/04/confederacys-christian-nation-john-fea-04-27-2011 accepted 6/20/2019)

But, the  CSA's motto was "God is our vindicator" (Deo Vindice) and  as John Fea wrote earlier the article, "The leaders of the Confederacy had no qualms about claiming that God had uniquely raised the South up to do His work in the world." While there were Christians in the US, the Confederacy held itself as being a Christian country. Harry S. Stout.Professor of History, Religious Studies, and American Studies Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity, Yale Divinity School states in his article "Religion in the Civil War:The Southern Perspective,"  "For the South, this “chosen” status not only presumed ultimate victory in what would turn out to be a long and bloody conflict, but also put God’s imprimatur on the Confederate national identity. In fact, the South claimed to be a uniquely Christian nation. " (http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/cwsouth.htm accessed 6/20/2019

While the Confederacy did have institution of slavery, it was based in the biblical tradition of Exodus 22. (the US sinned by lacking  a Jubilee, as the CSA was a Christian country, they would have it.) the Torah institutes it and heterosexual marriage. Jefferson Davis said "It [slavery] is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree." Harry Stouts in his article states, "Part of that work, as had long been argued, was the “Christianizing” of the African slaves. To address abolitionists’ cries for an end to slavery, southern preachers declared that slavery was a sacred trust imposed on the South by the slave traders of Great Britain and the northern states. Furthermore, some averred, God had ordained slavery as a punishment for African paganism.
 Ironically, this very conviction led Southern educators to talk seriously for the first time about educating the black people among them."  If the CSA was racist for its fight then so is Chick-Fil-A and American Evangelicals f are also "racist" for fighting for the traditional family.

John Fea completed his article with this:
"Today's Christian nationalists like to talk and write about the ways in which the United States has morally suffered by abandoning its so-called "Christian heritage." They want the Bible back in schools and the government to promote Christianity. But I am not sure all of them would have embraced the Confederacy's attempt to establish a Christian republic." The CSA was a Christian country and fought to protect their rights to practice such.

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Harry S. Stout "Religion in the Civil War:
The Southern Perspective," http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/cwsouth.htm accessed 6/20/2019
JOHN FEA, "The Confederacy's "Christian Nation",'  https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2011/04/confederacys-christian-nation-john-fea-04-27-2011 accessed 6/20/2019

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