***During the moment of silence that followed, a woman in favor of nuclear weapons could be heard in the background, defiantly singing “Onward Christian Soldiers.”***
I pumped my fist when I read that sentence.
> I pumped my fist when I read that sentence.
What does a Christian hymn about combatting spiritual wickedness in high places have to do with man’s wars on Earth?
The use of the atomic bomb on Japan was necessary to bring WWII to a screeching halt. That was a decision made by an Earthly government (Democrat, by the way) in order to protect its people, which is a perfectly valid thing for a government to do, according to Romans 13.
But it has nothing to do with Christianity.
“For we battle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12