Confederate Religious Justifications

The Confederacy used religion as propaganda; a persuasive tool to justify their reasoning behind seceding, slavery, and other Southern ideals. 

Popular belief that slavery caused the South to secede was furthered enflamed when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Rallying cries by proslavery Christians justified the use of slaves. "In sermons, popular tracts, and lengthy treatises, authors noted that the Bible provided guidelines for the regulation of slavery, and that in four different locations the New Testament instructed slaves to obey their masters. At no point did Jesus or any other biblical figure explicitly critique slavery as an institution."