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Comments on the Iraq War

I’ve generally avoided the subject of Iraq on this blog, mainly because of the controversy it is likely to engender. However, I thought I’d link to a piece by Peter Kirk who says a lot of what I think about the subject and responds to some of the wilder Christian comments on the situation.

It seems to me that the clash of worldviews on Iraq is not so much between the West and the Middle East or between Christians and Muslims as between the majority of peace-loving moderates on both sides and the fundamentalist minority on both sides, and I include here many but not all fundamentalist Christians, who put their own understanding of truth before common humanity. I am reminded of the scribes and Pharisees of Matthew 23:23, but what these fundamentalist warmongers are doing instead of practising justice, mercy and faithfulness is rather more harmful than tithing their herbs!

One of the great things about blogging is the way in which one writer will pick up and develop upon the work of another. In the time since I first wrote this post, Henry Neufeld has picked up on what Peter wrote and added his own thoughts from his US perspective.

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