Comments on: God’s Politics – Chapter 8

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:58:00 +0000

I wish it were so easy to explain to conservatives. Unfortunately, even a few years after the start of the war, many of them, deeply embedded in their epistemological relativism, say completely inane things like, "Well, I just choose to see it a different way. Bush didn't lie; he made a mistake."

I would hope that of all things, the Downing Street Memo would prove that this is utter nonsense. Aside from the fact that the whole "just war" thing never actually was "just" by any stretch of the imagination, as each month passes, we're usually provided with more and more information that goes to show just how completely dishonest Bush and Co. has been. How else would one explain his waning approval rating?

Thanks for this summary. I love that Rowan Williams quotation!

peace,

eric

By: dlature

dlature — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:57:00 +0000

the most maddening thing about these “just war” folks who apply this to Iraq, is how their whole case rests on mere “theory”. If we didn’t attack first, then far more WOULD have died (the theory), therefore we are justified in “preventing that THEORETICAL tragedy by preempting it with (presumably) a less destructive one. Problem is, the trade is not just. In fact, as you intimate, Christians are not in the trading business, but the business of giving up our own security in order to be obedient. Of course, those Christians who seem to have most of their life and brain and spirit “In the world” think this is crazy and naive. They simply seem to refuse to believe what God p[roved through the resurrection: that it is “obedience all the way”.

Good summary.