[Peace-discuss] Christianity and War - Laurence Vance

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I just tonight "discovered" anti-war libertarian Christian author 
Laurence M. Vance ---
I think that many of you will enjoy hearing or reading Vance, 
particularly those of you are professing Christians,
and those of you who are not, or have aught against Christians, 
Republicans, Bushites, hypocrites, etc.

I certainly enjoyed hearing and reading him. 
He is a von Mises scholar and is logical and very direct.

I have posted video, audio and text links to Vance at my blog.

http://www.liberty4urbana.com/drupal-6.8/node/42

I believe that both the video and the audio are worth hearing.

____
 From Vance interview with Angela Wittman of ChristianLibertyParty.com----

Q:  Please give us a brief introduction of your latest book Christianity 
and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State .

Dr. Vance: My book contains seventy-nine essays, organized under the 
headings of Christianity and War,
War and Peace, The Military, Christianity and the Military, The Iraq War,
Other Wars, and The U.S. Global Empire. The essays span the four-year 
period from late 2003 to late 2007.

Although many of them reference contemporary events, the principles 
discussed in all of them are timeless: war, militarism, empire, 
interventionism, the warfare state, and the Christian attitude toward 
these things. ... These essays have one underlying theme: opposition to 
the warfare state that robs us of our liberty, our money, and in some 
cases our life.

*There is nothing "Christian" about the state's aggressive militarism, 
its senseless wars, its interventions into the affairs of other 
countries, and its expanding empire. Although war is a subject that 
needlessly divides and sidetracks Christians. It is my contention that 
Christian enthusiasm for the state, its wars, and its politicians is an 
affront to the Saviour, contrary to Scripture, and a demonstration of 
the profound ignorance many Christians have of history and their own Bible.*

Q:  Do you agree that when discussing the issue of war with others we 
should frame the debate in terms of God's ideas rather than man's?

Dr. Vance: When discussing the issue of war with religious people the 
answer is unequivocally yes. What man thinks about war is completely 
irrelevant. However, some Christians are so blinded by the Republican 
Party, the conservative movement, government propaganda, and the 
military that they reject the clear teaching of Scripture. The case 
against war and militarism must often be presented to these Christians 
like it would to the irreligious that reject the authority of Scripture.

***
I think that many of you will enjoy hearing or reading Vance. 
I certainly enjoyed hearing and reading him.  He is very direct.
I have posted video, audio and text links to Vance at my blog.

Vance discusses Christianity and War... 
<http://www.liberty4urbana.com/drupal-6.8/node/42>





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace-discuss/attachments/20081225/4c68c476/attachment.htm