Max McNabb writes about the American church of warmongering.
I can only speak for myself when I was in that mindset.
Jesus says to me, "Do you love me more than these? (gesturing to a stack of American flags)".
"Lord, you know I'm fond of you," I replied.
Jesus says to me, "Love your enemies."
"I'll love America's enemies when they stop glowing," I replied.
"Fear not those who can destroy the body."
"I'm so scared of dirt poor Muslims on the other side of the planet I'll happily cheer for a war on them based on accusations which are barely coherent, ripping the bodies of their children asunder."
"Trust in the Lord."
"I trust the Lord for something ephemeral in the distant future and some small things in the here and now. I trust in horses (the military) and princes (Republican politicians) for all of the big things, and I'll gladly cheer them as they kill millions of people."
Who is really our God? Jesus or Mars?
Will Grigg notes, "British culture is now well and thoroughly godless because God and empire had been commingled in the minds of the generation that went giddily to war in 1914."
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