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On March 30, 1863, in the midst of the civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for a day of prayer, fasting and humiliation. It included...
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?
I'm having a hard time coming up with a more severe judgement on a nation than civil war.
Syria has been a long-running, unabashed, unashamed supporter of any number of terrorist organizations, including, but not limited to, the Kurdish PKK, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hizbollah.
I take no joy in the violent death of anyone, but I'm having a hard time feeling any sympathy for the Syrian regime. I heard a preacher say one time that in war, the side that humbles itself before God first wins. I consider the truce for the Eid feast a step in the right direction.
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