American Sniper not only snubbed Selma of its Best Director nomination, it did worse: brought back jingoistic defenses of one of the worst wars in U.S. history. Nothing really boils my blood more than a defense of the Iraq War and the American heroes, like the American Sniper, who the Christian Right seems to idolize for carrying out their President’s war crimes. I know that sounds dramatic but it was exactly this conflict and its American Evangelical canonization that almost got me to walk away from Jesus altogether. Since you can read more about my story with peace and how it saved my faith
Jesus gets ignored when the U.S. is your savior
Jesus gets ignored when the U.S. is your…
Jesus gets ignored when the U.S. is your savior
American Sniper not only snubbed Selma of its Best Director nomination, it did worse: brought back jingoistic defenses of one of the worst wars in U.S. history. Nothing really boils my blood more than a defense of the Iraq War and the American heroes, like the American Sniper, who the Christian Right seems to idolize for carrying out their President’s war crimes. I know that sounds dramatic but it was exactly this conflict and its American Evangelical canonization that almost got me to walk away from Jesus altogether. Since you can read more about my story with peace and how it saved my faith