Hi Buddy aka Beverly

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I appreciate your article and have often pondered this myself.  For some reason war and Christianity all seemed to be wrapped together in the American flag, don't they?

A popular picture statement going around on Facebook shows a Bible and a gun and says something to the effect of these are two things that are not taught in school but should be.  A couple of my relatives "like" a Facebook page called something like "Bibles, Babies and Guns."  How did such incongruious items ever become all mixed together like that.  And why are so called "pro-life" people the same ones who also seem pro-war?

I've had many an argument with so-called Conservative Christians, and they all seem to resent social programs that help the poor.  So I've asked them even if they don't care about "the least of them" don't they care about themselves?  Don't they think that in making already poor people even more desperate by cutting programs that are getting them by, if this will create crime as they start to come after what you have?  The answer is usually if that happens they will stand behind their guns.  In other words, they would rather shoot someone than help them.

So, your article is very timely and perhaps as Christians, maybe we should be asking each other "Who would Jesus kill?"