How do you explain when God sends you into a 'Holy War'... And you lose it.

Keninny at DownWithTyranny:

"There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

"--Garry Wills, in "A Country Ruled by Faith," in the new (Nov. 16) New York Review of Books"That is unthinkable to the evangelicals,"

Wills continues. "They cannot accept the idea of second-guessing God, and he was the one who led them into war. Thus, in 2006, when two thirds of the American people told pollsters that the war in Iraq was a mistake, the third of those still standing behind it were mainly evangelicals (who make up about one third of the population). It was a faith-based certitude."

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