I don't believe being a Christian requires universal pacifism, but the attack on the South by the Lincoln regime was wrong on many levels.
In simple terms, northern interests wanted to eliminate southern political and economic competition which had been an irritant since before the revolution. As in so many instances, follow the money.
Correct, from earliest times soldiers were welcomed into Christian communities.
jeffersondem: "...but the attack on the South by the Lincoln regime was wrong on many levels."
Incorrect, because the attack by the Confederacy on the Union was wrong on many levels.
Every nation has a right to defend itself and defeat military forces which provoke, start, declare and wage war on it, as Confederates did against the Union.
jeffersondem: "In simple terms, northern interests wanted to eliminate southern political and economic competition which had been an irritant since before the revolution.
As in so many instances, follow the money."
In simple terms, what you just posted is a stinking pile of excrement, mythology unrelated to real historical facts, FRiend.