The NY Times has a piece about an anti-war protest at the White House by thousands of Christians.
John Pattison, 29, said he and his wife flew in from Portland, Ore., to attend his first anti-war rally. He said his opposition to the war had developed over time.
”Quite literally on the night that shock and awe commenced, my friend and I toasted the military might of the United States,” Pattison said. ”We were quite proud and thought we were doing the right thing.”
He said the way the war had progressed and U.S. foreign policy since then had forced him to question his beliefs.
”A lot of the rhetoric that we hear coming from Christians has been dominated by the religious right and has been strong advocacy for the war,” Pattison said. ”That’s just not the way I read my Gospel.”
Further evidence that there’s a considerably greater diversity of views among politically engaged evangelical Christians in the US than is often supposed – and that more progressive constituencies are getting increasingly well-organised. See God’s Politics by Sojourners head Jim Wallis…
