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“and especially the Methodist doctrine that sin is inherent and that all unregenerate sinners will experience hell in the after life.”

— Grant H. Palmer

“As the Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others—were carried into the slave states of the South, into the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,…

— Andrew Himes

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

— Harold Bloom

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest…

— John Wesley

Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into…

— G. Edward Griffin

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to…

— Mitch Landrieu

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

— Horace Walpole

“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.”

— Rachel Held Evans

Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the…

— Adam Hamilton

“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after the end…

— Andrew Himes

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so strongly already.…

— Trae Crowder