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The catholic land movement, despite being enthusiastically written about by Belloc, did not have its core principles endorsed as doctrine by the church. Despite their good inentions, there was an element of Ludditeism in their beliefs. This is not pertinent to the civil war discussion.

There was no excuse for the KKK and it is disgusting to justify under the guise of the wrongs southerners felt at being made to free the slaves and pay the price for not doing so voluntarily.

The specific tactics used by the Nothern military have nothing to do with their justification for going to war. And Sherman's march burned a path through the Carolinas and Georgia, but he did not slaughter all the southern civilians he encountered.

I'm not going to respond to that hypothetical question because it the same logic used by those misguided people who bomb abortion clinics and is not applicable to this discussion.