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| | NPR : A Political Warning Shot: 'American Theocracy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | In Religion and the American Civil War, another useful volume, Randall Miller, Harry Stout, and Charles Wilson waited barely a page into their introduction before instructing that "the United States was the world's most Christian nation in 1861 and became even more so by the end of the war. |
 | | Civil War armies were, arguably, the most religious in American history."79 Indeed, as we will see, the major Protestant denominations split along geographic lines before the nation as a whole did along political ones. |
 | | The Civil War was the nation's first real 'time of testing' when God tried the permanence of the Union or, in some interpretations, brought judgment upon his wayward people."91 Blended with American exceptionalism, subsequent variations of this national self-assuredness have transcended church or creed. |
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