tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post8019925565870274970..comments2023-06-14T08:03:14.211-04:00Comments on Tommy Mann : Should Christians Vote Part 2: Aren't All Leaders Appointed by God Anyway?Tommy Mann Ministrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629684679268261608noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post-14097817139018990432012-04-08T14:33:53.676-04:002012-04-08T14:33:53.676-04:00Anonymous,
Thank you for your comment. I won’t be...Anonymous,<br /><br />Thank you for your comment. I won’t be getting around to reading that book you suggested in the near future (although I will check it out), so if there is something that I have “overlooked” would you mind telling me here? <br /><br />And yes, I would consider an alternate view. Anonymous commenters here frequently suggest that I have never read a dissenting viewpoint from my own, but they fail to realize that my viewpoint is shaped by reading many differing opinions. By the book title you suggested I’m assuming that you are referring to war, but as I stated in the blog Should Christians Vote for War or Capital Punishment (http://tommycmann.blogspot.com/2012/01/should-christians-vote-for-war-or.html), I believe in just wars. However, I have read Compollo (http://tommycmann.blogspot.com/2010/07/can-we-be-americans-and-christians-tony.html), Claiborne, McClaren, Miller, and others who believe that there is never a cause for war. <br /><br />Brian McClaren has rightly pointed out that countries expand their borders through “bullets and bombs,” and I am opposed to that; the war on terror is not about America’s Manifest Destiny, but about being peacemakers to the victims of evil despots (Hussein, for example, murdered millions before he was brought to justice through this just war, and he would have murdered hundreds of thousands more). <br /><br />Anti-war Christians like to talk about being peacemakers, but holding up images of the peace symbol doesn’t bring peace to Afghanistan; bombs and bullets have. If the anti-war movement prevailed then bin Laden and Hussein would be alive today murdering a dozen people per day over another few decades; where is the peacemaking and the social justice there?<br /><br />So yes, I would be open to hearing an alternate opinion, but that doesn’t mean that I will change by belief.Tommy Mann Ministrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629684679268261608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post-87020895341696893182012-04-08T06:40:23.110-04:002012-04-08T06:40:23.110-04:00Perhaps you might consider an alternative view? Th...Perhaps you might consider an alternative view? There's much that you've overlooked in your series on Christians and voting. Check out: "<a href="http://covenant.nu" rel="nofollow">Blood Guilt: Christian Responses to America's War on Terror</a>" (New Covenant Press, 2011)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post-12727645353024897722012-01-18T15:33:46.222-05:002012-01-18T15:33:46.222-05:00Thank you Philip. I enjoy doing it. On Thursday I ...Thank you Philip. I enjoy doing it. On Thursday I will put up Part 3 on abortion and stem cell research, and the next one will be on war and the death penalty.Tommy Mann Ministrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629684679268261608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post-73064217422060162532012-01-18T15:13:35.274-05:002012-01-18T15:13:35.274-05:00Good point Tommy Mann.. Thanks for these blogsGood point Tommy Mann.. Thanks for these blogsPhilipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2056051583786220639.post-76471939631182091462012-01-16T18:46:53.441-05:002012-01-16T18:46:53.441-05:00The next blogs will begin to look at the issues.The next blogs will begin to look at the issues.Tommy Mann Ministrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629684679268261608noreply@blogger.com