Whatever about the moral and legal issues, it's become clear that the war in Iraq was a big political mistake (as was predictable and predicted). Western freedoms are being undermined. The world is much less safe. Iraq has degenerated into civil war. At least the tyrant Saddam was a secularist and kept the Islamic extremists at bay. But even his execution was botched, and succeeded in turning him into a martyr for some.
Christian Fundamentalism played a large part in this mistaken war for these reasons, among others:
They see things in naive, literalist, "good and evil", "black-and-white","us-and-them" terms. Because of the self--righteous tendency in fundamentalism, they believe they alone are saved: therefore they are right and everyone else is wrong. Also, for doctrinal reasons fundamentalists tend to ignore the Sermon on the Mount (with its pacifist implications). They project their own negativity unto the Islamic fundamentalists, who are their mirror image-etc.
2007-05-06
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