Civil War Redux: Coda

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Lincoln ended his First Inaugural with words that always move me, deeply.  Move me most, knowing
that those whom Lincoln addressed arrogantly refused to hear and heed his words.

"Conservative" ideology has filled many Christians' hearts with fear and hatred toward their brothers;
which is always satan's purpose in his "doctrines of demons" (I Timothy 4:1).  The words I'd most wish
today's deceived "conservatives" would hear, and heed:

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained
it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every
battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will
yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better
angels of our nature."