Is God in War?

(Is God active in war? Cinema? Literature? Politics? History? Certain Presidents?) expand |collapse

George Washington, ibid drexel.edu

By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, and escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me."   more... 


 
Abraham Lincoln ourdocuments.gov
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
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Corporal Alvin York, WW1 (Not a Conscientious Objector??)
I never was a conscientious objector. I am not today. I didn't want to go and fight and kill. But I had to answer the call of my country, and I did. And I believed it was right. I have got no hatred toward the Germans and I never had.
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Desmond Doss: WW2 Conscientious Objector desmonddoss.com/bio/ Saved many lives as a medic, injured by grenade, refused to carry a weapon. Respected by his comrades. Subject of "Hacksaw Ridge".    more...
 
Kiyoshi Watanaabe: Japanese Imperial Army Amazon Review ($6.99 used) "...one of the British Army patients who came to know him was afterwards to write: 'I have read of many great Christians. I have met only one - John Watanabe.'".    more...
Yeshua ha Meschiach:
  (To Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this world, or my servants would fight...")[i] more...
     
Leo Tolstoy (The Kingdom of God is ...")
[Editor/s note:] Pure pacifist Leo Tolstoy asserted that Jesus’ followers should eliminate military, local police and even landlords. Yet very few governments have successfully resisted fulfilling the second half of his opinion: [ii]"Governments are not only not necessary but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions."    more...

 
Dietrich Bonhöffer - Pacifist Resistor  Brittanica. Bonhöffer worked in a Nazi goverment position with others who secretly saved Jews, supported "illegal" churches, and possibly negotiate with British Navy. Dietrich has been associated with the plot to assassinate Hitler...
"the Church was silent when it should have cried out because the blood of the innocent was crying aloud to heaven. She is guilty of the deaths of the weakest and most defenseless brothers of Jesus Christ."
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Ten Boom family "Resisted evil' by serving...
Two years after the Blitzkrieg tore through The Netherlands, the Ten Booms joined the Dutch resistance.
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Irene Sendler wikipedia, Snopes, https://irenasendler.org/
"Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget."
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ENDNOTES

[i] Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?" 36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world." 37 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world-to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"

After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, "I find no guilt in him.


 


 

[ii] The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Within-Christianity-Mystic-Religion/dp/1371256314/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1547930052&sr=8-1


 

[iii]George Washington address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 January 1790 (Third paragraph) Founders Archive(.gov):

Among the many interesting objects, which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defence will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.