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I think for you, it was ad nauseum when you heard there was another side. You don't want there to be another side, you want one side to be accepted by everyone because you like believing that the side you have been told were the "good guys" won.

It's comforting. It restores man's faith in the orderliness of the Universe.

But let me put a bug into your garden of Eden. It is something I had forgotten, but of which I was reminded on another thread yesterday. (Also about Lincoln.)

If Lincoln was doing "God's Work", then why was his own personal life so tragic? One would think that a man doing what God wanted done, would be given some peace in his life.

It has always bothered me that Lincoln's son died, and that his wife went insane, because I couldn't square the one thing with the other. It made no sense that a man doing this great work for freedom and justice would be so badly treated.

Needless to say, it makes more sense to me now then it did when I was young. Maybe it will bother you the way it bothered me, and thereby lead you to looking at things in a different way.