(urth) Wolfe Heretic?

[Lane Haygood]

What about "Praise God and Pass the Ammunition?"

(I know it's not a hymn; I'm just making a joke.)

Lane

On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:37 PM, John Smith wrote:

> I won't try to defend the Crusades but you're giving
> the hymn  "Onward, Christian Soldiers" a bad rap.
> The hymn does not promote militarism.     The
> "Christian soldiers" are not military men who are
> waging war on heathens.   They are Christians who are
> urged to advance Christian ideals LIKE soldiers going
> into battle.   Listen to the words and I think you'll
> agree.
>
> Jack
>
>
>
>
> --- Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>
>> Adam Thornton wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:17 PM,
>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Seriously: we're supposed to be talking about
>> the writings of someone
>>>>> who is ... famously Catholic, with ... some
>> really nonstandard theology,
>>>>
>>>> I know Wolfe considers himself to be orthodox.
>> What bits of heresy do you
>>>> accuse him of? I don't see any that's explicitly
>> in there....
>>>
>>> The outright rejection of pacifism (which I
>> believe is pretty clear in
>>> the interviews) seems to directly repudiate much
>> of the Sermon on the
>>> Mount, which I think I am being pretty orthodox in
>> believing to be among
>>> the very centralmost of Christian positions
>> (although, yes, of course
>>> you can point to the moneychangers, and, yes, then
>> you can point to
>>> Christ carrying a scourge...
>>
>> Did you miss the various Crusades? Or hymns like
>> "Onward Christian
>> Soldiers?" Militarism's been given the imprimatur
>> for a long time.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jack
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