http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/12/11/pastor-dave-redux/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/12/11/pastor-dave-redux/#comment-82 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:48:36 +0000 http://stengazette.org/wordpress/2004/12/11/pastor-dave-redux/#comment-82 It seems the religious people in our country are very grateful that Bush won re-election since he is a Christian and seems to push his religious beliefs into his agenda. But that really confuses me. I can't seem to get my head around how going to war in Iraq is a very Christian thing to do. It seems that Jesus taught us to "turn the other cheek". I can't find a place in the bible where Jesus decided to slap someone before they got a chance to smack him. I also can't find a place in the bible were Jesus killed anyone or tried to take over a nation. Christianity is all about following the example Jesus left for us. This example surely did not include going to war. Since the war in Iraq is Bush's biggest legacy and war is clearly not a very Christian thing to do, why do so many Christians think Bush's victory saved us from evil? At what point are we, as the war aggressors, evil ourselves? It seems like Christians want to back Bush because of his agenda to combine church and state. But they want to forget the fact that war, especially this war, is a terrible, unchristian like thing to do. I don't know why I�m so surprised, Christians have been picking and choosing what they want to believe in since their inception. It seems the religious people in our country are very grateful that Bush won re-election since he is a Christian and seems to push his religious beliefs into his agenda. But that really confuses me. I can’t seem to get my head around how going to war in Iraq is a very Christian thing to do. It seems that Jesus taught us to “turn the other cheek”. I can’t find a place in the bible where Jesus decided to slap someone before they got a chance to smack him. I also can’t find a place in the bible were Jesus killed anyone or tried to take over a nation. Christianity is all about following the example Jesus left for us. This example surely did not include going to war. Since the war in Iraq is Bush’s biggest legacy and war is clearly not a very Christian thing to do, why do so many Christians think Bush’s victory saved us from evil? At what point are we, as the war aggressors, evil ourselves? It seems like Christians want to back Bush because of his agenda to combine church and state. But they want to forget the fact that war, especially this war, is a terrible, unchristian like thing to do. I don’t know why I�m so surprised, Christians have been picking and choosing what they want to believe in since their inception.

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