There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? That is unthinkable to the evangelicals. They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude.
Here's what I think happens when a nation loses a war it thinks God commanded. Either people of faith turn on the false prophets that misled them into war. Or, like Germany after World War I, they turn to the legend of a "stab in the back."
How long do you suppose it will take Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Richard Land to blame the liberals, the church-state separationists, the secular humanists, the ACLU, the gays and the feminists for their anointed's debacle in Iraq?
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This is a very real possibility. It happened with Vietnam: The complaints that we weren't allowed to win; that the liberal media lost us the war, etc.
The obscenity of "evangelicals" thinking that God commanded them to support a war when the evangel itself is against war is scandalous.
Hey they started that just a few days after 911, remember that attack was God's judgement about our wicked wicked ways.
I concur with Michael, this is a frightening possibility, one which must be fought at all costs!
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