[goldstategop]

I assume Jim Wallis and most of the anti-war religious leaders would not have endorsed the use of force to rid the world of Nazism? I think that was a just war under any theological reading of the moral use of force. So is ridding the world of Saddam.

[lavaroise]

Saddam Hussein's iconoclastic rule and Christian persecution flies in the face of Christian principles of peace and maintaining the free exertion of jobs and "churches" by Christians. Moreover Saddam broke every treaty and promise he ever made.

It would be utter nonsense to refuse the job duty of fighting Saddam off the planet. And Christian doctrine is anything but pacificism. It is about war ending, not war starting.

[nathanbedford]

A few days ago I started a list of institutions which have been suborned by the left. I forgot to add the National Council of Churches:

Bar Associations

Medical Associations

Girl Scouts

League of Women Voters

National Public Radio

PBS

All TV networks bearing initials

Most newspapers

Ivory soap percentage of Universities

NEA

Sierre Club and the like

[nathanbedford]

A few days ago I started a list of institutions which have been suborned by the left. I forgot to add the National Council of Churches:

Bar Associations

Medical Associations

Girl Scouts

League of Women Voters

National Public Radio

PBS

All TV networks bearing initials

Most newspapers

Ivory soap percentage of Universities

NEA

Sierre Club and the like

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Jim Wallis is not anti-war, he is Pro-Saddam/Pro-Marxist.

According to Information Digest, Wallis is “a radical evangelical, who, with encouragement from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) seeks to convert evangelicals to liberation theology and convince them of the ‘impossibility of making capitalism work for justice and peace.’” (Information Digest, Sept. 26, 1996, p. 163)

Among those serving as contributing editors for Sojourners magazine include Honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Cornel West, and DSA Vice chair Rosemary Radford Ruether, who was also a leader in the Re-Imagining movement.

Wallis stated his own support for a Marxist world view in a 1979 article in Mission Trends: “As more Christians become influenced by liberation theology, finding themselves increasingly rejecting the values and institutions of capitalism, they will also be drawn to the Marxist analysis and praxis that is so central to the movement. That more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes is therefore predictable. It will even be predictable among the so-called ‘young evangelicals’ who, for the most part, have a zeal for social change that is not yet matched by a developed socioeconomic analysis that will cause them to see the impossibility of making capitalism work for justice and peace. Now that the ‘new socialist society’ is replacing the capitalist system in the minds of many as the hope for the future, growing numbers of Christians will join the movement and seek to provide a convincing religious rationale and justification for what is defined as historically inevitable.” ( Mission Trends No 4, 1979, “Liberation Theologies in North America,” pp. 54-55)

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A real Marxist's Marxist, Jim Wallis would make Jim Jones smile. And of course he doesn't see any reason to bring "Uncle Saddam" to justice, no fellow Marxist could.