Life was, for lack of a better word, cheaper back then. Heck, look at Picket’s charge. I’m sure most of those men stormed the Union lines fully expecting to be cut down. But they did it anyway because some things are more important than life itself. That is how this nation was built and that is why we celebrate the amerecans that gave their lives for the sake of freedom - even freeing black slaves in the Civil War.
A nation of atheists/humanists simply can not win such battles because they don’t believe in anything greater than themselves. And this country has become much more atheist/humanist.
‘A nation of atheists/humanists simply can not win such battles because they don’t believe in anything greater than themselves.’
are you acquainted with such a great number of atheists that you can make such blanket statements about them...?