“WHEN THE WAR CAME,” as President Abraham Lincoln would proclaim, the Civil War was seen as an act of vengeance inflicted on the United States by God for the crime of slavery.
Lincoln prayed for God’s help. The answer was to look around and find others. They are the help provided.
Have faith (smile).
It seems confounding that Civil War leaders of both the North and the South would claim to be fighting with God on their side. How can this make sense..?
Yet, the world is governed by rules that are enforced by nature and competition of interests is one of those rules that cannot be sidestepped.
With their opposition, losers have probably done God’s service by defining what needed to be conquered.
Losers can be seen as immortal heroes, then, for standing and falling, because they gave victory its meaning. For this reason, it seems, losers in war have earned a sense of honor that should not be denied them.
Thwarticus 