“Over a century ago, the United States of America went through a divisive and bloody Civil War that separated the people of this nation bone from marrow.”
While that war was fought over slavery, there were many other issues involved. One of them was just how far the federal government could go in making laws for all the states.
Feelings festered so long and ran so deep that men whose fathers had stood shoulder to shoulder in the war for independence faced off across fields of battle and killed each other. Over six hundred thousand Americans lost their lives in a senseless war that would set the Southern states back a half century.
Fair minded, level-headed men on both sides could have avoided the issue perhaps, but the rhetoric grew ever hotter. Brash young men on both sides, who had never fired a gun in anger, viewed a war as the pinnacle of romanticism, and implacable politicians refused to give an inch.
Do we not see this same attitude on the streets of America today? We see young people interviewed on television who can’t even articulate the reason they are protesting. Others bent on destruction, who probably espouses no cause but chaos. Hysterical protestors screaming about First Amendment rights which they seem to think only protect them and those who think like them and that the opposition has no First Amendment protection and should be shouted down at all costs.
The rhetoric is becoming hotter and more nonsensical, the radical element more apparent, the violence and destruction of property more common place. The pot is boiling and it’s only a matter of time before there will be blood on the streets.
While Americans have the right to civil disobedience, a right to gather and demonstrate against some policy they feel is unfair or harmful, but they do not have the right to interrupt commerce, break windows, burn cars or do bodily harm to those who disagree with them.
People who won’t listen to reason, who ignore the law of the land and who try to stifle the opinions of others tend to forget that there is an element of violence on the other side as well, a side that, thankfully, so far has not yet come forth. But, should these conditions continue, someday soon the violent elements of both persuasions will find themselves on the same streets, and what will ensue will not be pretty.
History repeats itself. Is America headed for civil war?
“In India, China, Russia, and the cities of America, thousands of men and women are dying of starvation. The monied men, because they have the power, control the market. They purchase at low rates all they can obtain, and then sell at greatly increased prices. This means starvation to the poorer classes, and will result in a civil war. There will be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” Daniel 12:1 Manuscript 114, 1899.
The article above by Charlie Daniels is abbreviated and adapted. Daniels is a famous American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Sometimes “the children of this world are… wiser than the children of light. Luke 16:8.