Christ-like Soldiers?
June 29, 2008
Since this is the Sunday before the Fourth of July, many churches held their patriotic services today. On the way to church this morning I passed by another church and saw this sign:
The American soldier and Jesus Christ. One gives his life for your freedom. The other for your soul.
I can’t think of anything more blasphemous than mentioning Jesus Christ, the Lord, the Son of God, the Prince of Peace in the same breath as a U.S. soldier who bombs, maims, kills, and then dies for a lie.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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