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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.