Quote Originally Posted by dawgday166 View Post
What do you call the Civil War? 620,000 men died in that war, more than all our other wars combined. And more than that were wounded and/or maimed for life.

And in last 100 or so years we've mostly been fighting perpetual wars for perpetual peace.
I call it humans fighting humans over moral convictions, I see no evidence God was involved at all. For example, terrorists waging war for Allah are quite full of moral convictions, but you wouldn't say the battles they fight are God's will/punishment.

Humans owned slaves. Other humans felt it was wrong. The 2 fought. It seems unnecessary and irrational to inject God and give Him credit for ending slavery in America. Plus, that opens up a whole can of worms about why he didn't end it sooner, or why he's done nothing to end it now in other parts of the world.

If God does act to bring "judgment" on the world, why does He allow such great evil to persist for so long?