Tom DiLorenzo on the origins of government-murder worship.
It is worth mentioning that all of this editorializing about the war being waged over the "sacredness" of "the flag" is consistent with what Lincoln cultist James McPherson wrote in his book, What They Fought For: 1861-1865. After reading hundreds of letters home and diaries of "Civil War" soldiers on both sides of the conflict, McPherson concluded that the average Yankee soldier believe he was fighting for "the flag," whereas the average Confederate grunt believed that he was fighting against a tyrannical government that had invaded his country, bombed his town, and threatened to harm his family.
They were "dedicated, messianic postmillennial pietists or else former pietists, born in a deeply pietist home, who . . . possessed an intense messianic believe in national and world salvation through Big Government."
-Thomas DiLorenzo
Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/thomas-dilorenzo/the-american-religion-of-violence/