Ku Klux Klan Analysis

After the tensions and the loss of the Confederate fight in the American Civil War, hardships were endured with immense animosity towards the black population and the reconstruction policies that were enforced by the Republican party. This shared extreme hate and hostility by white southern men led to the creation of the infamous group titled the Ku Klux Klan on June 9th, 1866, only a little over a year after the end of the civil war. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan induced pure hatred towards blacks in the beginning, but would later turn into an organization that opposed anti-Americanism, such as immigration, women 's rights, organized labor, and any religious order that didn’t pertain to that of protestantism. This was enhanced by the

Miller’s main argument for this document is essentially that, despite what may have been thought, majority of Protestant churches did not support the Klan. For a matter of fact, Miller’s entire document is completely discounting this theory. Explicitly, Miller presents multitudes of influential Protestant journal articles and primary sources throughout this document that completely discount the Klan. One particular popular Protestant journal titled “Christian Century” continuously warned those of the United States, particularly their own followers, of the growing influence of the Klan, and to not be tempted by their evil workings. Miller states that readers of the “Christian Century” journal “were reminded that the spirit of the Klan was against the very genius of

Despite thinking they were defending their religion, they were threatening it. It was an actual ceremony to burn the cross of Jesus Christ by Southern Baptists Klan members and others alike, but in their defense, it wasn’t disgracing God, it was “glorifying the light of Jesus Christ.” Klan members believed, and still believe to this day, that the burning of the cross ceremony celebrates the light of Jesus Christ after He saved His people from sin, or in their words, the darkness. Like many, if not all Klan members, Southern Baptist Klan members had, and still continue to have, an extreme hate for Jews. A tertiary source documentary titled, “Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History,” combined multitudes of mini interviews with Southern Baptist Klan members who stated first-hand that the source of hate that they feel towards Jews are ultimately “just because they exist.” With this in mind, isn’t their hate for Jews hypocritical when Jesus Christ, the Ku Klux Klan’s Lord and Savior himself was a Jew? These ideals are those that have been kept since the twenties, yet Southern Baptist ministers, and other ministers from Protestant denominations, were teaching the words of love from the Bible, yet go against Christianity’s teachings and promote explicit hate against people of a certain race and hate of a religion