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A long read, but worth it. Several good points are made by Dr. West

The rest of this essay is HERE

When someone, let's say Islam, which includes a billion people more or less, declares war on you, a reasonable person would conclude that you are at war whether you want to be or not. So let's grease them ASAP. If there are moral and philosophical questions in the aftermath, these can be discussed later when this bunch of terrorist garbage is in the pig's trough where it belongs.

If, in the end, it boils down to the question of turning the other cheek, or following the interpretation "thou shalt not kill" then in the end this may be precisely why your God allows one to sin, but then ask forgiveness.

We are, after all, only human, my friend.

Only one, by your lights, has been perfect.

And he forgives. Godspeed.

Excellent article. The one question that I would pose would be based however on the issue of repentance and God's favor during battle. The problem I am having as a Christian is I see quite a lot of calls for war and the quick singing of God Bless America. but I have not truly seen a change in the American people as a whole.

Truth, we do have a greater respect for God, but when the leaders of the nation that are leading us in the war speak to the people of spending time in prayer to God at the nearest mosque, synagogue, or church there is a problem. I don't think a little idol of Allah is going to help this country in a war. Whether we as Americans care to admit it, this nation was founded(as pointed out by the article) by mainly Protestants. The first Amendment protecting the right of free speech is not there to allow the worship of anything from a tree to a crystal ball. It was there to establish that the federal government could not institute an exact way that we must worship the one and only true God. Remember at the time, Christianity was the religion of choice. Do you honestly believe that the Founders when writing the Constitution were allowing for the worship of bags of crystals or to Satan. 50 of the 55 Founders were devoutly religious and involved in their respective churches(Founding Fathers, M.E. Bradford). Also the regular media and entertainment arena has had their little catharsis and it's back to business as usual.

If Christ came not to change the law, but to fulfill the law as he stated, then the original precepts within the Old Testament still hold true. If we seek favor in battle, as we should, we should return to some semblance of the faith of our fathers. Just because we have had for the past month a feel good session and maybe a few people return or enter the church, does not mean it should be back to business as usual morally. But apparently that has happened and that is what I fear the most