Wayward Christian Soldiers ---Jr as 'a real brother in Christ,'

[rodeodance]

...........The single common theme among the war sermons appeared to be this: our president is a real brother in Christ, and because he has discerned that God's will is for our nation to be at war against Iraq, we shall gloriously comply.......


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/opinion/20marsh.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
January 20, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
Wayward Christian Soldiers
By CHARLES MARSH

Charlottesville, Va.

IN the past several years, American evangelicals, and I am one of them, have amassed greater political power than at any time in our history. But at what cost to our witness and the integrity of our message?

Recently, I took a few days to reread the war sermons delivered by influential evangelical ministers during the lead up to the Iraq war. That period, from the fall of 2002 through the spring of 2003, is not one I will remember fondly. Many of the most respected voices in American evangelical circles blessed the president's war plans, even when doing so required them to recast Christian doctrine.
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As if working from a slate of evangelical talking points, both Franklin Graham, the evangelist and son of Billy Graham, and Marvin Olasky, the editor of the conservative World magazine and a former advisor to President Bush on faith-based policy, echoed these sentiments, claiming that the American invasion of Iraq would create exciting new prospects for proselytizing Muslims. Tim LaHaye, the co-author of the hugely popular "Left Behind" series, spoke of Iraq as "a focal point of end-time events," whose special role in the earth's final days will become clear after invasion, conquest and reconstruction. For his part, Jerry Falwell boasted that "God is pro-war" in the title of an essay he wrote in 2004.

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. What Would Jesus Do?

Apparently, bomb the shit out of brown people and "convert" the live ones to Christianity.

Sounds so ...Coulterish.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Give me a break

The chimp is no brother of Christ. He is a corrupt little politician
who has caused the ruin of several nations (including our own),
commited hundreds of thousands of vilolent bloody murders (including
our own sons and daughters), he has lied and amassed the largest
debt in history (in 5 short years) with the help of his corrupt crooked cronies,
and that's just a few of his sins.

No the Chimp is just man... a very bad man.... a piss poor president...
and a criminal who should be tried for his crimes.

Jesus would spit.

[hwmnbn]

3. Hey, can't Jesus just smite the bastard?......

or if he can't personally do it, talk to the BIG GUY and have him work his "mysterious ways"

If we had a competent democratic party, we wouldn't need divine intervention.

[C_U_L8R]

4. True True

We need brave dems to throw a few jehova-size
bolts of lightning up the chimps ass


(nsa disclaimer... it's allegory agent mike)