Conservative Christian Leader Attacks Commission on Conscience in War
Does the Institute for Religion and Democracy oppose freedom of conscience for service members?
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Oppose Afghanistan But Not a Pacifist? Tough.
While Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize speech to legitimize Afghanistan using just war principles, soldiers are currently unable to invoke these principles in refusing to serve. When we punish soldiers who heed their moral compasses, we deny them religious freedom, and our democracy is threatened. It’s time to allow those who oppose the war on ethical grounds the option of ‘Selective Conscientious Objection.’
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Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist
The president’s speeches at West Point and in Oslo show that there’s more than one way to be a wartime president.
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Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?
Ironically, the president’s Nobel acceptance speech reestablished many of the (flawed) Bush justifications for war. Are we, or are we not, in a religious war?
Read MoreJust War Tradition v. David Brooks on 9/11 Trials
With the 5 Gitmo detainees believed to be behind the 9/11 attacks being tried in Manhattan, conservatives push for the label of “war” over “crime.” Just War tradition doesn’t agree.
Read MoreTorture and Just War Theory, Or, Gary Bauer Is a Horrible Little Man
Conservative Gary Bauer’s recent attempt to justify American torture of prisoners using Just War Theory is found wanting.
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Sacred&Profane: American Martyrdom
America has defined itself through identification of evil enemies and shared grief for heroes who die fighting them…
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The Question of Evil: Politicians Weigh In
What the presidential candidates’ responses to a question about the nature of evil reveal about the state of American Christianity…
Read MoreTerminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities
We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.
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The Double Life of the War Criminal
Radovan Karadzic has been hiding in plain sight as a New Age healer…
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