{"id":579,"date":"2011-04-12T12:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=579"},"modified":"2011-04-12T12:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:25:44","slug":"in-god-both-sides-trusted-civil-wars-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/in-god-both-sides-trusted-civil-wars-150th-anniversary.html","title":{"rendered":"In God, Both Sides Trusted: Civil War&#8217;s 150th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of\u00a0 the American Civil War.\u00a0 (Do they still teach it as the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression in southern schools?\u00a0 Sigh.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0this 19th century bloodshed wasn&#8217;t directly a faith conflict &#8212; not compared to\u00a0Europe&#8217;s Catholics vs. Protestants, India&#8217;s Hindus vs. Muslims, etc., etc.\u00a0&#8212; the Civil War was a kind of struggle for our country&#8217;s soul.\u00a0 Here are three interesting faith-related stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/12\/how-the-bible-was-used-to-justify-slavery-abolitionism\/\">How the Bible was used to justify slavery, abolitionism <\/a>(CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/RNS-Long-lost-letter-sheds-light-on-Lincoln-s-faith.aspx\">Long-lost letter sheds light on Lincoln&#8217;s faith <\/a>(Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/forum\/2011-02-28-column28_ST_N.htm\">In Civil War, the Bible became a weapon <\/a>(USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of\u00a0 the American Civil War.\u00a0 (Do they still teach it as the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression in southern schools?\u00a0 Sigh.)\u00a0 While\u00a0this 19th century bloodshed wasn&#8217;t directly a faith conflict &#8212; not compared to\u00a0Europe&#8217;s Catholics vs. Protestants, India&#8217;s Hindus vs. Muslims, etc.,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,14,65,67,68],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-christianity","tag-civil-war-anniversary","tag-president-lincoln","tag-slavery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In God, Both Sides Trusted: Civil War&#039;s 150th Anniversary - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/in-god-both-sides-trusted-civil-wars-150th-anniversary.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In God, Both Sides Trusted: Civil War&#039;s 150th Anniversary - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today marks the 150th anniversary of the start of\u00a0 the American Civil War.\u00a0 (Do they still teach it as the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression in southern schools?\u00a0 Sigh.)\u00a0 While\u00a0this 19th century bloodshed wasn&#8217;t directly a faith conflict &#8212; 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