Huckabee’s Army Orders

Concerning “Huckabee’s Call to Soldiers in Christ’s Army: ‘Obey Orders,'” a friend writes: “I don’t deny that service to God involves suffering, though one would suffer even if he were not devoted to such service, simply because it’s the nature of life. But I for one don’t believe that obeying God’s orders is, or should be, akin to obeying orders in a military sense; in my view, the latter is all about being demeaned and degraded, not to mention dehumanized. In fact, Huckabee’s rhetoric is all too reminiscent of the intertwining of faith and militarism which has lamentably become characteristic of so many conservatives, and can only serve to perpetuate the blasphemous notion of the soldier as Jesus, or vice versa. What is especially unfortunate is that such thinking tends to give all people of faith, and even faith itself, a bad name. But if one were to ask if there was one way to readily distinguish the genuinely faithful from the faux faithful, I would say that the latter have been deluded, or deluded themselves, into believing the one can serve two masters.”

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