the Civil War was just 84 years before I was born;
What i have thought about a lot is the scripture that says ( in the last days or end times that knowledge would be increased
Knowledge has been greatly increased and almost every thing has been in our day, it would not surprise me in the least to here that science has increased more since 1948 than every thing in history put together.
I was born the day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Just eighty years after the Civil War, a weapon of such destructive power was used in war! (Not me, the bomb.) Sixty eight years later and humankind now have the capability of ending human life on the planet. And I don’t see that the spiritual development of humankind has been progressing. On the contrary, we appear to be degenerating faster than corn through a goose.