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Filed in National by on February 26, 2009

When is the last time you went to church and heard the Priest, Reverend, Preacher or whatever denounce a war?

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  1. jason330 says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Yep. The Christians came up very small during Bush. Then again, so did Democrats.

  2. Unstable Isotope says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    It definitely wasn’t our country’s finest hours.

  3. cassandra_m says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Pope John Paul II was against the war. And I thought he gave GWB what for over it on one of his Vatican visits.

  4. Unstable Isotope says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    That is true, Cassandra. JPII was very consistent in opposing the Iraq War.

  5. edisonkitty says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    I think this type of preaching dried up when the IRS got strict about tax-exempt status.

  6. nemski says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Dude, I’m a UU, they do it all the time. Even right after 9/11.

  7. Donhusseinsquishviti says:
    February 26, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    well when I was going to St. Hedwig church for the years after 9/11 they didn’t say boo about war. Just support the troops

    “lord hear our prayer”

  8. Rhymes With Right says:
    February 26, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    The week before I switched churches.

  9. Joanne Christian says:
    February 27, 2009 at 8:25 am

    I don’t know…but the Sunday AM after the DeLib Gala we had a federal judge speak in our church. Husband and I were riveted, and I was tearful…we both commented how this would have made a stirring , hopeful, healing, and encouraging finale to the festivities of the night before, coming from a pulpit. It is now weeks later, and we still comment how we wish some of you guys heard his remarks–they have lasted with us. Poignant on the Obama win, to individual responsibility, forgiveness, humility and humanity. You would have thought church was the right place to be that day.

  10. Dana, the father of a soldier says:
    February 27, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Mr Viti wrote:

    well when I was going to St. Hedwig church for the years after 9/11 they didn’t say boo about war. Just support the troops

    Once the war was joined, what option was left? Do you think it’s somehow wrong for the prayers of the faithful to ask the Lord to protect our men and women in Iraq?

  11. cassandra m says:
    February 27, 2009 at 9:26 am

    You could also pray to ask the Lord to bring the war to an end quickly.

    You could ask the Lord to provide us with leadership that was alot less belligerent so that our guys and gals wouldn’t have to pay the price.

    There is alot that you could have petitioned for, Dana.

  12. Another Mike says:
    February 27, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Praying for an end to the war does not mean that people do not support the troops.

  13. xstryker says:
    February 27, 2009 at 10:45 am

    Plenty of Rabbis spoke against the war.

    By the way, I can think of several schmucks at KBR who oughtta be beaten into ploughshares by the troops they betrayed.

  14. Dana, the father of a soldier says:
    February 27, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Cassandra wrote:

    You could also pray to ask the Lord to bring the war to an end quickly.

    No, I pray for it to be won quickly.

  15. pandora says:
    February 27, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Religion has always been very skilled at picking their injustices.

    And, Dana, what is winning in Iraq? I’ve been waiting years for an answer to this question. A question, I might point out, that some of us have been asking from the beginning and our leadership ignored.

  16. xstryker says:
    February 27, 2009 at 11:38 am

    No, I pray for it to be won quickly.

    In that case, you should probably examine the motives for the war and try to figure out whose side God is on.

  17. Geezer says:
    February 27, 2009 at 11:48 am

    “No, I pray for it to be won quickly.”

    Which is why you, a camel and the eye of a needle belong in the same sentence. Stick with the Old Testament, dude — it’s the only one you’ll understand.

    I don’t know the exact date, but the Rev. Jim Lewis spoke out against it in a sermon at my Episcopal church a few weeks after it started. Four bunged-up Dana types walked out.

  18. nooneimportant says:
    February 27, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    I’m also Episcopal, and we pray every week for our troops (at home and abroad) but we’ve always done that. I think that when it fits into the sermon our preist will subtly point out that the war is wrong (and he’s a Republican) or that enouh is enough… There is something to the non-prof. status and it’s somehing we’re always conscious about. Infact for our news letter I did an entire series beginning in June and ending in Nov. on the election, but had to watch what I said and how I said it b/c of that…

    He’s not outward about it, but part of that is b/c we’re a new church and we’re still trying to find our niche.

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