Baptist Seminary President Defends Atomic Bomb

R. Albert Mohler Jr. is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. In an online column (“Hiroshima and the Burden of History”), Mohler says: The most challenging moral questions related to the actual use of the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are whether the bomb was actually necessary to end the war and whether it was right to bomb cities, knowing that thousands of civilians would be among the casualties. Correct. But then he repeats the bromide that “in the final anaylsis, there is good reason to believe that the deployment of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima … Continue reading Baptist Seminary President Defends Atomic Bomb