(A hymn to total war and government-supremacy, yet it is in every ‘Southern Baptist Hymnal’ I can remember. Propaganda much at SBC? – DD)
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(Al Benson, Revised History) – Many year ago now, when we lived in West Virginia, the church we attended used a hymnbook that contained “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” At the time I didn’t know much about that song (I won’t call it a Christian hymn because it isn’t) but when folks got to choose what hymns they wanted to hear in the Sunday evening service that song was often chosen. At that time the pastor in that church was from Georgia, and I can imagine he cringed every time that song was chosen in a service. I remember one time, one of the congregation said to him, in jest, “We can’t sing Dixie. It’s not in the hymnbook.” If the truth be known The Battle Hymn of the Republic should not have been in a Christian hymnal either, but unfortunately it is still in many.
I ran into the same situation years later in a church in Illinois. By that time, I knew the background of that song and I explained to the pastor there that Christians should not be singing this song and I ended up mailing him some information as to why they shouldn’t. He was completely in the dark about this song, as most Christians are. In fact, most Christians, and lots of others too, are completely in the dark about most of our history in general. What they are taught for “history” in most of our public schools by public school teachers, with a few exceptions, is verbal gobble-de-gook.
At any rate, The Battle Hymn of the Republic was written by a Unitarian and abolitionist, Julia Ward Howe. She and her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe were Transcendentalists (radical Unitarians). Julia’s husband was a supporter of abolitionist/terrorist John Brown. In fact, the tune for the “Battle hymn” was taken from the song…
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