Tag Archives: war and religion

These are the heroes

17th Sept 2010 Private Bradley Manning decided to blow the whistle on one heinous crime (probably among thousands) committed by US Apache Helicopter Crews roaming the skies in Iraq to ‘blow away’ terrorists. The recorded conversations between command centre and

OT rhetoric in Christendom

17th September 2010 An article written by Robert Koehler on AntiWar.com’s website also touches on the very real problem concerning the extremely worrying rhetoric of US military leaders claiming to be Christian Warriors. The language they use is not dissimilar

Thank God for victory!

The following selection from Winston Churchill’s speech given to the House of Commons on the 8th May 1945 was not included in the BBC broadcast. Giving glory to God for the defeat of another nation perhaps would not have been

An old Christianity that is not Christ

Christians need to become aware of the ways in which the authority of the Bible over the centuries has influenced the expansion of diverse cultic quasi religious organisations, connected intimately with mainstream Christianity, that are obsessed with the lust of

Ministry of Death

Praying for the Destruction of Human Life Kenneth Copeland Ministries is an international Christian ministry sharing the good news of the gospel and proclaiming “Jesus Is Lord!” through Believer’s Voice of Victory television broadcasts, the Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine,

Presidential Prayer Team

21st August 2010 The top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Monday that Taliban momentum has been reversed in areas that had been its stronghold. General David Petraeus also said that US forces would not begin an

Christ v Bible / State Intro

The introduction touches on the language of beautification that crops up in the way the human race tries to make meaning out of mass destruction. War is both beautiful and ugly to soldier and victim but both are civilians, the

War is not divine; it is humanism playing God

We accuse other cultures of barbaric behaviour when they chop off heads and darkly croon in our beer about the terrible inhumanity of man. Yet it was only two generations ago that English people subordinated themselves to a killing machine