[Proverbs 3-5]

In fairness, what does John Brown have to do with anything? He wasn’t an agent of the union. IN fact, the union saw to it that he was defeated and hanged. As much as silly confederate-wannabes make out of John Brown, the beginning of the Civil War was when the South attacked a union outpost, despite the retreat of the union forces from several positions to that one outpost.

The point was the "prophecy" cited implied that the Civil War started in SC. You could argue that, and you could also argue that there were a great many causes... of which the firing at Ft Sumter was one of many catalysts. I'm taking sides on who started the Civil War. There were other events leading up to the firing on Ft. Sumter that led to the Civil War, not just that one event in SC.

[dangus]

>> I’m taking sides on who started the Civil War. <<

Well, I am. The notion that John Brown served as a justification, much less initiation of the war is ridiculous, and is the sort of thing that all men of good conscience and reasonable intellect ought to quash as nonsense. The raid demonstrated nothing but the swift and urgent response by the union to a menace to a soon-to-be-confederate state.