At home that evening, I sat the kids down to watch Episode Five of Ken Burns's Civil War series-"The Universe of Battle," about Gettysburg.
My ancestors did not fight and die at Gettysburg or any other Civil War battlefield.
Our current politics is sometimes described as a "Cold civil war," but I don't think that's quite right.
Ours is a simmering religious war, more like sixteenth-century Europe than nineteenth-century America.
Civil wars are about politics; religious wars are about deeper things.
Our Civil War was fought to settle basic political and constitutional questions left unresolved at the Founding.
It was fought by two parties that, in Lincoln's words, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." The parties to our current religious war most definitely do not pray to the same God.
https://www.city-journal.org/state-of-division-united-states
My ancestors did not fight and die at Gettysburg or any other Civil War battlefield.
Our current politics is sometimes described as a "Cold civil war," but I don't think that's quite right.
Ours is a simmering religious war, more like sixteenth-century Europe than nineteenth-century America.
Civil wars are about politics; religious wars are about deeper things.
Our Civil War was fought to settle basic political and constitutional questions left unresolved at the Founding.
It was fought by two parties that, in Lincoln's words, "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." The parties to our current religious war most definitely do not pray to the same God.
https://www.city-journal.org/state-of-division-united-states
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