When I moved to Philadelphia about 13 years ago, it was right after George W. Bush started his War in Iraq. The Evangelical president had no issue assigning religious language to his war and I was having no part in it. In Central PA supporting the Republican president was just what Christians did (at least the ones I knew). For a variety of reasons, some holy and others not, I was not having any of it. I couldn’t imagine Jesus bombing anyone and I still can’t. But the support for the war from Christians that I knew was so strong, that it seems like I couldn’t follow God and call myself a Christian without pledging allegiance to the war. It got so bad, that I thought I might need to stop following Jesus or at least calling myself a Jesus-follower because the landscape was so devoid of people opposed to the war, or so I thought.
The cosmic cost of the travel ban
The cosmic cost of the travel ban
The cosmic cost of the travel ban
When I moved to Philadelphia about 13 years ago, it was right after George W. Bush started his War in Iraq. The Evangelical president had no issue assigning religious language to his war and I was having no part in it. In Central PA supporting the Republican president was just what Christians did (at least the ones I knew). For a variety of reasons, some holy and others not, I was not having any of it. I couldn’t imagine Jesus bombing anyone and I still can’t. But the support for the war from Christians that I knew was so strong, that it seems like I couldn’t follow God and call myself a Christian without pledging allegiance to the war. It got so bad, that I thought I might need to stop following Jesus or at least calling myself a Jesus-follower because the landscape was so devoid of people opposed to the war, or so I thought.