I guess my first thought is of the actual crucifixion of Jesus, and how the general population was cheering it on because they were deceived by the Pharisees into believing that Jesus was a phony. In a similar fashion I feel like we have followed our own leaders into several wars in the last few decades under false pretenses because they said that we were in the right to do it and we all cheered it on because we were deceived too.
First thoughts – that's wrong and offensive. War is NOT in the name of religion – it is about property, money, government. It's about freedom…which, ironically, includes FREEDOM OF RELIGION – which, last time I checked did not mean only within Christian religions. What if it were a Buddha statue being raised?
My first thought is the love God has for us. Seeing our warriors fight (a different war within our own country) makes me see how they are willing to die for us to have freedom.
I guess my first thought is of the actual crucifixion of Jesus, and how the general population was cheering it on because they were deceived by the Pharisees into believing that Jesus was a phony. In a similar fashion I feel like we have followed our own leaders into several wars in the last few decades under false pretenses because they said that we were in the right to do it and we all cheered it on because we were deceived too.
The confusion of the two kingdoms.
Read Gregory Boyd's The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Christian-Nation-Polit…
First impression….did not like it….
Makes me think of what a 20th century Crusades would look like.
First impression: Whats the point? To disrepect Jesus and veterans at the same time?
First thoughts – that's wrong and offensive. War is NOT in the name of religion – it is about property, money, government. It's about freedom…which, ironically, includes FREEDOM OF RELIGION – which, last time I checked did not mean only within Christian religions. What if it were a Buddha statue being raised?
Wrong ….
wrong place
wrong message
Looks like someone has hijacked an iconic WWII patriotic image and turned it into a Christian one.
I wonder how the original flag raisers would have felt about being portrayed in this way?
My first thought is the love God has for us. Seeing our warriors fight (a different war within our own country) makes me see how they are willing to die for us to have freedom.