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<blockquote data-quote="MacFall" data-source="post: 54414181" data-attributes="member: 206437"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">These excerpts from Spurgeon's sermons on "Christian War Fever" were compiled by Laurence M. Vance for his series of essays entitled <em>Christianity and War</em>. I think they are a healthy antidote to the national-collectivist bloodthirst that seems to infect the American church these days.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I'd link to the original article but I guess I need 23 more posts before I can do that.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left">[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The thing that most disturbs me is how quick Christians are to buy the ideas of statism when it comes to war. As soon as the state - by far the institution which most closely approximates the Devil in ideology and operation - declares that those who live under the hand of a rival state are evil, Christians believe the story and cheer on their deaths.</span></span></span>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: left">[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: left">[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Worse, Christians tend to judge people of other nations not based upon their individual persons, but rather by which gang of thugs taxes and regulates them. This, of course, is what most people in the world do - but shouldn't a Christian follow Christ's words rather than the reasoning of the world that leads them to these collectivist ideas?</span></span></span>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Defense of a person is one thing. But war as it exists today is always and everywhere the program of one gigantic, socialized military-industrial complex either fighting another such organization, or stomping all over the lives and property of smaller nations.</span></span></span>[/FONT]</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I would encourage Christians to abandon their War Fever and with it cease their support of the state and its works. The only business a Christian has at the altar of the state is in tearing it down, and the worst a Christian can do is to aid the state in the spilling of more blood upon it.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacFall, post: 54414181, member: 206437"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]These excerpts from Spurgeon's sermons on "Christian War Fever" were compiled by Laurence M. Vance for his series of essays entitled [I]Christianity and War[/I]. I think they are a healthy antidote to the national-collectivist bloodthirst that seems to infect the American church these days. I'd link to the original article but I guess I need 23 more posts before I can do that. [/SIZE][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The thing that most disturbs me is how quick Christians are to buy the ideas of statism when it comes to war. As soon as the state - by far the institution which most closely approximates the Devil in ideology and operation - declares that those who live under the hand of a rival state are evil, Christians believe the story and cheer on their deaths.[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Worse, Christians tend to judge people of other nations not based upon their individual persons, but rather by which gang of thugs taxes and regulates them. This, of course, is what most people in the world do - but shouldn't a Christian follow Christ's words rather than the reasoning of the world that leads them to these collectivist ideas?[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Defense of a person is one thing. But war as it exists today is always and everywhere the program of one gigantic, socialized military-industrial complex either fighting another such organization, or stomping all over the lives and property of smaller nations.[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]I would encourage Christians to abandon their War Fever and with it cease their support of the state and its works. The only business a Christian has at the altar of the state is in tearing it down, and the worst a Christian can do is to aid the state in the spilling of more blood upon it. [/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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