[wideawake]

Except that God did not see fit for the English to win, He did with the Union. The winner makes the distinctions.

Fascinating.

So whoever wins is God's favorite.

Presumably Jesus was lying when he said that the rain falls on the just and unjust alike.

Thanks for correcting His mistake.

[CyberCowboy777]

I do not deny that the unjust can win, look at Clinton.

Also, I do not consider the South unjust, both sides where full of great people.

But prayers for freedom were stronger from the north and from the religious around the world for the north. No matter the "real" cause of the war, the fact that pastors, clergy, politicians (inside and outside the States) and followers of Christ were fighting and sacrificing to save people from slavery worked against the south.

The south's leadership was stupid not to take slavery off the table in the very beginning, they did not and even included the preservation of it in articles of secession. They burned themselves by not being the most right. Good ideas or not, they were wrong not to immediately free all slaves and apologize for ever taken part in the practice. At that point the South could have made all these other points in a valid context.

Prayers work and the south could not get the prayers of many outside their own borders and even had many inside their borders praying against them.

BTW- my ancestors fought on both sides. We even have a few heroes of the south in the blood.