What is this new Fundie symbol I see?

[xultar]

I saw a car with a palm tree and a crecent moon. They were coloured with red white and blue stripes.

I've also seen them in plain white and I think orange.

What is this new Fundie symbol?

[musette_sf]

1. "I'm Enlisting For Iraq!"

(I wish!!!!)

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. I believe...

you are refering to the state flag of South Carolina...I only know that because I've seen many of them the past week because I'm down at my mother's house in Myrtle Beach.
I have no clue why they come in so many colors

[Mist]

3. I think the palm tree and crescent moon

stand for something Arabic or Islamic. Combined w/r/wh/blue, possibly it means patriotic American of Arabic descent?

[Mist]

6. Oops! My bad

Didn't think of SC flag (and I lived there a year!)

[jdj]

33. The crescent moon is evil, EVIL. Proctor & Gamble have the

moon and stars symbol, and they drink babies blood and chant to the devil, remember?

Seriously, my fundie mother (progressively more and more shrill in her piety, she is fundioactive) recently declared she will not allow these symbols in her house under any circumstances.

Trust me, you will never see an aspect of nature such as a planetary satellite or tree on anything christian. Nature is evil, of the devil, and unclean.

[xultar]

4. OMFG Wait...remember that ASSHAT who is trying to make SC Fundieland

There is some guy who want's all the fundies to move to SC to turn it into a christian Nazi country.

I bet ya!!!!

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I wouldn't doubt it.

n/t

[xultar]

11. Check this out

South Carolina is separatists' promised land

By Paul Wachter and Christina Lee Knauss

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS


COLUMBIA, S.C. - A Texas group wants conservative Christians to move to South Carolina - 12,000 at a time - to form a biblically inspired government and secede from the United States.

Decrying a national tolerance of abortion and gay marriage as well as the teaching of evolution, ChristianExodus.org hopes to achieve a majority of like-minded Christians in the state by 2016, the planned year of secession

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/9016765.htm

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. Instead of south carolina...

maybe Mel Gibson could let them use his Island, and they could be out of our hair forever

[xultar]

22. You think Mel want's a bunch-o-knuckledraggin snaggle tooth

redneck, slurred speakin, unedumacated, sweaty, tobacco chewin, fingerlickin' soppin-up gravy backwards-ass hicks on his island?

Even if they agree with his anti-semetic bullshit I'm sure he'd givem' directions to guantanamo instead. Puhleez

[Occulus]

36. ok, now, wait

"redneck, slurred speakin, unedumacated, sweaty, tobacco chewin, fingerlickin' soppin-up gravy backwards-ass hicks"

* I grew up in the country
* I make my 's' sounds weird (not quite a lisp, but enough to torture my childhood :) )
* I work hard when I work, so yeah, I sweat
* I always lick my fingers clean after baby back ribs
* Bread sops up gravy real well, try it, it's yummy
* I wear my hat backwards
* I live eight feet from a state game preserve

So THERE. Nyah. ;)

[xultar]

38. You might live down the street from me. I'm from the south...you can tell

can't ya. I know about soppin up stuff with my bread.

buhwaaaaaaaa!

[liberalhistorian]

32. Umm, I think

South Carolina might have something to say about that, and I don't think they'd be too happy about this!

[Ian David]

5. It's South Carolina's Confederate Flag

The Original Secession Flag




by Mario Fabretto, 24 February 1998

Though the South Carolina state flag harkens back to the crescent worn by her troops in the American Revolution, and the palmetto tree is a reminder of the palmetto logs that stopped British cannon balls in the bombardment of Ft. Moultrie during the same war, it is still very much a Confederate flag for its current incarnation.

While the flag in some variation was adopted under the South Carolina Militia Act of 1838, the flag as shown today was not officially adopted as the state flag until January, 1861. Then it was the flag of the seceded Republic of South Carolina - the first of the states to leave the Union.

As such, it is indeed every bit as much a Confederate flag as any other pattern of Confederate flag (and there were many). In fact, the palmetto flag, as it became called at the time, was far more the symbol of secession for the South than the more famous Bonnie Blue flag - that gets far more publicity than it deserves based on an examination of the newspapers of the time (but it did have the song). I have found FAR more mentions of palmetto flags being hoisted all over the South (as well as out West and in the North) as symbols of secession than the lone star/Bonnie Blue flags.

South Carolina troops also fought under their state flag -the state providing flags to the first ten regiments raised for its defense. Other palmetto flags were issued to local military companies as well which saw early combat use.

The palmetto flag of South Carolina is, therefore, a Confederate battle flag, just like those that were created to be as such during the war by the various CSA commanders.

Greg Biggs, 19 January 2000

[annabanana]

10. Well, THANK you!

Boy! You never know what interesting tidbits you can find swooping around DU of an evening!

[theorist]

25. Interesting.

I lived in SC for eight years and never knew that. I'm as liberal as they come and pretty much hated the politics of the entire state. It is truly run by a good ol' boy network of corporatists who will put a (D) next to their name if it will help them get elected.

I still love Charleston and its rows of palmetto trees. I don't think the trees themselves are a sign of the Confederacy.

Unfortunately, I now live in a state that wishes it could've seceeded. Stupid crackers (in the Garofalo sense of the word)!

[jdj]

34. tis a shocker

I actually think it is a memo to the SC deliverance types that at this time of day you sneak out to the barn and rape the sheep.

Just so they don't get confused.

[rickrok66]

8. New symbol of Southern Pride

Hi xultar,

The symbol is the state flag of South Carolina - the first state to secede from the Union to form the Confederacy. The article from the Freepers explains it all:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173605/posts

The symbol is subtle display of Southern pride, rather than the Confederate flag.

Rick

[xultar]

9. Fuckers....I hate'em we need a symbol .... Welcome to DU!!

:grr:

[annabanana]

14. how's about...

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. That really is infuriating!

because I just commented to my mom yesterday that I was surprised that I didn't see as many confederate flags on cars as usual. But I've seen a ton of these with the obligatory Bush/Cheney bumper stickers. They are getting crafty with their racist symbols. I'm a northerner, so I had no idea about the story behind that flag. Ewwww thats awful! :puke:

[Tikki]

17. We DO need a symbol...

I was, just, thinking about this the other day.

[xultar]

23. I was thinkin the fleur de lis...I was going to design one but I don't

have good arty farty software.

[jdj]

35. you know what, the confederate flag debate was agony for the

Black Folks in SC.

And it ended with a slap in the face, taking the confederate flag down from the top of the statehouse and putting in right smack in front on the statehouse grounds.

When I look at this flag I see a moon and a tree.

I don't care what the freaks think it used to stand for.

It was a moon and a tree before they slobbered on it, and it'll be a moon and a tree long after their stinking corpses have rotted into the earth.

Dragging SC through another flash war like the one in the late 1990's would be just cruel and unusual punishment.

[EC]

30. I like the kicking donkey

:dem:



But an official underground symbol would be nice, so we could recognize each other. I still like the idea of a new underground free press also.

[LeftCoast]

12. So who'll be the first DUer to have a Pissing Calvin whizzin' on it?

:evilgrin:

[xultar]

13. I would but I don't have an outtie n/t

:evilgrin:

[Shopaholic]

18. The Red and White colors or Red/Black denote a USC

(University of South Carolina Gamecock) fan. The Orange versions are Clemson fans. I have one on my car (it's blue--like our State flag) and I'm sure as hell not a RW or a * lover--I just love my state, even if they are a bunch of stupid, right-wing fuckers. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I love my state but hate 99.9% of the people who live here! (Okay make that anyone who voted for *!)

[xultar]

21. Well you better move cuz in 2016 they are gonna be all up in your butt...

South Carolina is separatists' promised land

By Paul Wachter and Christina Lee Knauss

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS


COLUMBIA, S.C. - A Texas group wants conservative Christians to move to South Carolina - 12,000 at a time - to form a biblically inspired government and secede from the United States.

Decrying a national tolerance of abortion and gay marriage as well as the teaching of evolution, ChristianExodus.org hopes to achieve a majority of like-minded Christians in the state by 2016, the planned year of secession

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/9016765.htm

[chaska]

37. That's exactly how I feel...

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I love my state but hate 99.9% of the people who live here!

I lived most of my life in SC (born there), but after I lived in Seattle and now LA, I love the *place* when I go back, just can't deal with the backward people (yes, I do recognize that there are always exceptions, but...). I pity the poor exploited fools, but that doesn't help much.

[theorist]

27. You're bad! n/t

:hi:

[Tinoire]

19. Thank you for the comic relief-! Our first Islamofascist state!

LMAO! First time I've ever used that word but in this case it's so appropriate! Once all the crazed fundies have moved in, it will be our first Islamofascist state!



The poor decent people of SC! They're welcome to move out to CA. We'll take them so we can ship our trash out there. Freeperville in Fresno, CA would be the first city I'd like to swap out.

[karlrschneider]

20. Didn't they use that in a Corona Beer commercial?

:evilgrin:

[Cleita]

24. You want to blow their minds?

Tell them the crescent moon is a Satanic symbol. I kid you not. Remember when Proctor and Gamble had to scrap their crescent moon logo? It was because one of the TV minister assholes like Oral Roberts or Pat Robertson claimed it was Satanic and a symbol of black magic. This may be one of the problems they have with Islam too.

[xultar]

26. I'll leve post-its on their cars saying isn't the crecent moon a sign

of the devil?

You know...they are so evil now that maybe that symbol makes sense for them to covet.

[Swamp Rat]

28. Here is their flag:

[xultar]

29. Sad but we may see this yet somewhere in a press conference. n/t

[barb162]

31. hilarious, the devil incarnate n/t