Our nation continues to insist that civil war was justified to end slavery, but we simultaneously insist that a civil war would not be justified to end abortion (which is responsible for the murder of 60,000,000 children). It was right for America to abolish slavery, but perhaps it was wrong to accomplish this feat at the cost of 650,000 American lives. Other western nations abolished slavery peacefully, and many of these nations are not experiencing the deep-seated conflict over racial issues that America is. Perhaps, the “cold” civil war that America is currently experiencing is God’s judgment, not for unjust slavery in the past but an unjust civil war in the past.