AH Challenge: The Robert E. Lee Religion

DMA

Considering many in the Confederacy more or less treated their most famous general, Robert E. Lee, as some sort of diety, how about this becomes the case by the early 1900s?

So what is the Robert E. Lee Religion all about?

Where is it strongest?

Do its followers suffer abuse, maybe even deaths, by the Christain majority?

Maybe it becomes a Southern version of the Mormons...

Anything else?
 

Broz

there could be sectarian settlements isolated deep in the bayou still armed to fight the union and maintaining ethnic purity with intermariage
 

SilverPhantom2

Maybe with Jackson as the "John the Baptist figure" of him being slain, you could have John Wilkes Booth become one of the first to declare Lee the Supreme Deity. Perhaps He carries out his plan earlier in 1865, assassinating Lincoln, Johnson, and Seward. Maybe in the meantime, they find Lafayette Foster along the way and take the opportunity and shoot him. Foster dies and Benjamin Wade becomes President of the United States.

President Wade fights out the war with more vigor than before even though everyone knows the Union won. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army at Appomattox at the same time as OTL, but Grant has orders to arrest Lee and bring him to Washington for a very public court martial and execution. Lee instructs his followers, officers and enlisted men who love him, to let him die in peace. Longstreet attends the hanging in no guise, but everyone at the execution looks on with reverence as Lee walks heroically to his death.

Lee's last words are, "I have in no way, betrayed my country. She will stand forever."

His words are debated for the next eternity, but it's taken in the south as a hero's statement: the statement of a God.
 

MerryPrankster

Lee, a devout Christian, would not approve.

That being said, Haile Selassie (I've heard) flew to Jamaica and told the Rastafarians not to worship him, but that didn't stop them either.
 
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