What kept the nation feeding an entire generation into the
Civil War’s meat grinder, especially if the war’s endgame
prospects were so unclear? The answer, in Stout’s version,
was American religion. A war which began as a fairly colorless
constitutional dispute over secession was transformed by a
tidal wave of “millennial nationalism” into a crusade with
no 'off' switch. Faust flips the causal equation. If
religion did not exactly drive Americans to war, then
war drove Americans to religion as the justification for
its lethally expensive costs. “The war’s staggering human
cost demanded a new sense of national destiny,” wrote Faust,
“one designed to ensure that lives had been sacrificed for
appropriately lofty ends.” A nation guided by realpolitik
knows when to cut its losses. A nation blinded by the moral
gleam of a “fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel”
and charmed by the eloquence of a president with an uncanny
knack for making his assessment of political problems sound
like the Sermon on the Mount, obeys no such limitations.
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Re: Religion & Civil War
I couldn't get through that without picturing the image of crazy John Brown:
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- Wade Hampton III
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The fruitcake John Brown was the Bruce Jenner of his day. What more need be said
about a delusional maniac who wanted to free Southern livestock (Negro slaves) and
attempt to turn them into humans? Kudos to Robert E. Lee, then a light colonel in
the US Army, for bringing about the necktie party for Brown and and his fools!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... union.html
about a delusional maniac who wanted to free Southern livestock (Negro slaves) and
attempt to turn them into humans? Kudos to Robert E. Lee, then a light colonel in
the US Army, for bringing about the necktie party for Brown and and his fools!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... union.html
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Looks like Moses.
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Re: Religion & Civil War
Civil War II
If war is hell, civil war is its cruelest variation. Historians still argue
about how many Americans died in the war between the states -- the most
current estimate is around 750,000 -- but none dispute its status as the
deadliest conflict in U.S. history. So if we regard the assertion that
America is "on the brink of a second civil war" as something more than
cable news hyperbole, we should keep the toll of that first one in the
forefront of our conversation.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/colu ... 806319001/
If war is hell, civil war is its cruelest variation. Historians still argue
about how many Americans died in the war between the states -- the most
current estimate is around 750,000 -- but none dispute its status as the
deadliest conflict in U.S. history. So if we regard the assertion that
America is "on the brink of a second civil war" as something more than
cable news hyperbole, we should keep the toll of that first one in the
forefront of our conversation.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/colu ... 806319001/