How The CHURCH Betrayed Robert E Lee

He was against slavery.
But when Lincoln offered him the position of the top general in the Union army, Lee turned Lincoln down !!
He Fought for the Confederacy.
Well.if Lee didn't support slavery, why not lead the Union army
 and defeat the South - and bring about the end of slavery.
(which would have helped the South more than anything)!!

It was because Lee was a southern Episcapian.
And southern pastors never preached against slavery !!
So Lee was deprived of fiery sermons shouted out by pastors who dared to buck the system !!
When Lee was in his 20s,imagine If just one pastor (prefeeably more than one)
condemned slavery from the pulpit !! THINK of the effect that might have had on Lee's impressionable mind.
He might have been willing, later on, to take Lincoln's offer !!
 If only ending slavery could have  become synonymous with helping the South - in Lee's mind.
 If Lee saw that slavery was a curse on the South,
that's all it would have taken !!

What a WASTED opportunity.
With Lee in charge, the Union armies could have crushed the Confederacy within 2 years, shortening the Civil War by half !!
Think of the deaths and amputations of limbs that would have been avoided !!
 Think of the SUFFERING, the near starvation the South went thru as the war dragged on !!
 All that could have been avoided.
Had the war been cut in half !!  
All Lee had to do is see that slavery has no place in "the land of the free, the home of the brave" !!
But that would require pastors with the spirit of the Christian MARTYRS on the first century.
 Of whom it was said "they loved not their lives unto the death"(Revelation 12).
 But no such pastors came to Lee's aid.(More later).