I'd encourage you to study Romans 13:1-7. Clearly there are unjust wars that Christians should be deeply saddened over and even speak out against. But there are no doubt just wars...waged to restore justice and restore peace. I don't know anyone, Christian or non-Christian who is "pro-war". War is brutal...nobody LIKES war. But sometimes it is necessary to bring justice and peace....lest tyrants rule and injustice prevail. ie: WWII and the holocaust.
@Chriscjs ".waged to restore justice and restore peace"
Sometimes The Prince of Peace just has to shoot people...out of love.
WWJS?
Never forget the Flood. Never forget Passover. Never forget the plagues of Egypt. Never forget Sodom and Gomorrah. Never forget Elijah and the Bears. Never forget the promises of Revelations. God not only doesn't care about babies dying, he's actually killed literally tons of them, personally.
Genocide is next to godlyness, if the Bible is to be believed.
One last thing before i finish my tangent. I respectfully disagree with the use of the term pro-war...anyone who is pro war is either 6 years old with a cap gun or suffering from a serious mentaly abnormality. Some at my seminary would call pro-choice persons pro-abortion...and i call umm out on it. Dont get me wrong I think abortion is wrong and evil but to say someone who is pro-choice than that is outright disingenuous and I would hope that you might see it as the same with pro-war.
First off you have a beautiful voice and your quite skilled with your instrument, whowever I would like to point out a few inaccurices I feel your song contains. First of all I havent seen a single person bearing the christian banner into battle, Soliders, airmen, marines, and sailors fight for the united states not for Jesus. Man is fallen and sinful, many humans commit crimes and all of us think evil things. If unrestrained by laws and forces (like the military) I believe...
we would commit even more atrocities then we do now. Have u heard the story of the Good Samaritan? Most people have, it talks about a man who is beaten by thieves and after several people walk by a samaritan comes along and takes care of the beaten man....so my question is this, if he had come across the beaten man while he was being beaten should the samaritan have just watched him get beat? or should he tried to protect the man by force? God Bless You
Thanks Bill, for your thoughtful comments, and I apologize for not responding sooner. My song is more about imperialism and hegemony rather than actually defending someone legitimately, and tries to point out the dischord when someone is a Christian but would commit such atrocities. It is a comment on the religious right and their influence on political actions, often involving the military.
Thank YOU for your kind words and don't worry about taking time to reply, it was well worth the wait. I'm a Lutheran (LCMS) Seminarian(one who is training to become a pastor) I'm also applying to be an army Chaplain, just thought I'd share that to provide some context for my writing. As far as atrocities are concerned i couldn't agree more. Often times we see atrocities occur, they are evil and wrong and again a product of the broken world in which we live. Anyone who believes in the...
targeted killing of non-combatants women, children, etc. and claims Christianity as their faith is a walking contradiction and well deserving of the tongue lashing which u so eloquently inflict. however you say in your song that the soldiers who kill the family "believed" they were terrorists. If u meant by that poor informed grunts with faulty intelligence than I would have to respectful disagree with this being a war crime. Also i would like to point out, having talked to several chaplains
...and you run of the mill enlisted man (Privates, Sergeants, specialist, etc.) doesn't attend chapel services. Officers ( Lieutenants, Majors, Generals) attend in higher percentages but its far from a majority) In my opinion with so few attending chapel its hard to make a case that this a christian horde in the middle east. Kinda like someone can call themselves a Democrat...but if they didn't get off their rear end to vote for Obama its hard to defend their assertion...
I'd encourage you to study Romans 13:1-7. Clearly there are unjust wars that Christians should be deeply saddened over and even speak out against. But there are no doubt just wars...waged to restore justice and restore peace. I don't know anyone, Christian or non-Christian who is "pro-war". War is brutal...nobody LIKES war. But sometimes it is necessary to bring justice and peace....lest tyrants rule and injustice prevail. ie: WWII and the holocaust.
Chriscjs 1 year ago
@Chriscjs ".waged to restore justice and restore peace"
Sometimes The Prince of Peace just has to shoot people...out of love.
WWJS?
Never forget the Flood. Never forget Passover. Never forget the plagues of Egypt. Never forget Sodom and Gomorrah. Never forget Elijah and the Bears. Never forget the promises of Revelations. God not only doesn't care about babies dying, he's actually killed literally tons of them, personally.
Genocide is next to godlyness, if the Bible is to be believed.
EntinludeX 10 months ago
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God bless and thanks for your time,
Bill
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
One last thing before i finish my tangent. I respectfully disagree with the use of the term pro-war...anyone who is pro war is either 6 years old with a cap gun or suffering from a serious mentaly abnormality. Some at my seminary would call pro-choice persons pro-abortion...and i call umm out on it. Dont get me wrong I think abortion is wrong and evil but to say someone who is pro-choice than that is outright disingenuous and I would hope that you might see it as the same with pro-war.
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
First off you have a beautiful voice and your quite skilled with your instrument, whowever I would like to point out a few inaccurices I feel your song contains. First of all I havent seen a single person bearing the christian banner into battle, Soliders, airmen, marines, and sailors fight for the united states not for Jesus. Man is fallen and sinful, many humans commit crimes and all of us think evil things. If unrestrained by laws and forces (like the military) I believe...
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
we would commit even more atrocities then we do now. Have u heard the story of the Good Samaritan? Most people have, it talks about a man who is beaten by thieves and after several people walk by a samaritan comes along and takes care of the beaten man....so my question is this, if he had come across the beaten man while he was being beaten should the samaritan have just watched him get beat? or should he tried to protect the man by force? God Bless You
Bill
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
Thanks Bill, for your thoughtful comments, and I apologize for not responding sooner. My song is more about imperialism and hegemony rather than actually defending someone legitimately, and tries to point out the dischord when someone is a Christian but would commit such atrocities. It is a comment on the religious right and their influence on political actions, often involving the military.
flutefan 2 years ago
Thank YOU for your kind words and don't worry about taking time to reply, it was well worth the wait. I'm a Lutheran (LCMS) Seminarian(one who is training to become a pastor) I'm also applying to be an army Chaplain, just thought I'd share that to provide some context for my writing. As far as atrocities are concerned i couldn't agree more. Often times we see atrocities occur, they are evil and wrong and again a product of the broken world in which we live. Anyone who believes in the...
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
targeted killing of non-combatants women, children, etc. and claims Christianity as their faith is a walking contradiction and well deserving of the tongue lashing which u so eloquently inflict. however you say in your song that the soldiers who kill the family "believed" they were terrorists. If u meant by that poor informed grunts with faulty intelligence than I would have to respectful disagree with this being a war crime. Also i would like to point out, having talked to several chaplains
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
...and you run of the mill enlisted man (Privates, Sergeants, specialist, etc.) doesn't attend chapel services. Officers ( Lieutenants, Majors, Generals) attend in higher percentages but its far from a majority) In my opinion with so few attending chapel its hard to make a case that this a christian horde in the middle east. Kinda like someone can call themselves a Democrat...but if they didn't get off their rear end to vote for Obama its hard to defend their assertion...
WKWILLEN 2 years ago
I can only hope more people hear this.
MaraudingIce 2 years ago
felicitaciones, soy de argentina, no entiendo mucho ingles, pero algo entendi de la cancion... Muy buena.
Que bueno que haya gente como vos haciendo este tipo de canciones en eeuu. Gracias.
guitarpato 2 years ago