Christian warmongering

Good News, Bad News March 17, 2022: Biden Blames Putin, Christian Nationalists are Confused

Media

The Libertarian Christian Roundtable discusses the absurdities of the Biden Administration’s blaming Vladimir Putin for rising gas prices, why Nancy Pelosi needs to stop talking forever, why Christian nationalists are ...

Look out for Christian Jihadists

Christian Worldview

Christian jihadist—now there is an oxymoron for you. This sounds even stranger than constitutional conservative or libertarian Republican. Nevertheless, there are certain Christian military apologists and warmongers whom the term ...

Ye Shall Be As Gods

Theology

  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, “Yea, hath God said, Ye ...

Sniper Theology

Christian Worldview

There came out of the woodwork after George W. Bush’s immoral, unjust, and unnecessary invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq certain groups of Christians—many of whom wear cross and flag ...

Tearing Out Your Eye and Quitting Your Job

Christian Ethics

In this guest post LCC welcomes Matthew Gilliland, libertarian writer and speaker. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law. Jesus presents a considerable challenge to ...

Militarism in American Churches

Christian Worldview

Since the United States launched the unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and senseless war in Iraq in 2003, the Christian blasphemy occurring in churches has increased ten-fold. Even as the many lies ...

Where is the Religious Right Wrong?

Book Reviews

When I first heard of this book, the title alone was enough to make me sympathetic to the author’s case. Since gaining steam in the 1970s, the Religious Right has ...

Militarism and Easter

American History

On this Good Friday, Christians are focused on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of the world. But on every other day of the year ...

The Antidote to Military Exceptionalism

American History

This talk was given at the Authors Forum at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. I would like to thank Joe Salerno, Mark Thornton, and the ...

Christians and the Communist Boogeyman

Book Reviews

David E. Settje, Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars (NYU Press, 2011), xi + 233 pgs., hardcover, $36. This informative book reminds us that the ...

Friday Challenge: Spot the theological problem

Media

It’s Friday, let’s play a game! Today’s challenge is to spot the theological problem in this song: Okay, I’ll give you the lyrics just to help out… Praise the Lord ...

You Can’t Have a War Without Soldiers

Libertarianism

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire Critics of the wars in Iraq ...

give to caesar bible verses about government

If I were a pastor

American History

I am not a pastor. I am not a minister. I am not a preacher. I am not a priest. I am not an evangelist. I am not an elder. ...

Follies of Christian Militarism

Theology

Introduction to War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism by Laurence Vance (Vance Publications, 2013), 416 pgs., paperback, $19.95. These essays, although organized under four ...

You might be guilty of military idolatry if…

Culture

This past Memorial Day brought forth the usual military idolatry. What makes it worse, though, is that this military idolatry is so rampant among Christians and in churches. And just ...

Janus Christians

Theology

“Were it not for the support offered by several tens of millions of evangelicals, militarism in this deeply and genuinely religious country becomes inconceivable.” ~ Andrew Bacevich (Colonel, U.S. Army, ...

Pro-Lifers for Mass Murder

Christian Worldview

“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and ...

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