{"id":17198,"date":"2012-04-10T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17198"},"modified":"2012-04-09T23:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:29:22","slug":"rick-warren-god-hates-war-love-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/rick-warren-god-hates-war-love-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Warren: God Hates War, Love Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Rick Warren gave an interview to ABCNews&#8217; Jake Tapper in which he &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/04\/rick-warren-god-hates-war-but-god-loves-every-soldier\/\">defended the use of military force<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Apparently, this was newsworthy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military service&#8230;is a worthy and valid vocation. In fact, the greatest compliment that Jesus ever gave, he gave to a soldier in scripture. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen such faith in all of Israel.\u201d And the Bible said God has <!--more-->authorized government to protect the citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there\u2019s some things worth dying for. You\u2019re not really ready to live unless you know what you\u2019re willing to die for&#8230;And the Bible says they are actually agents of peace. They are peacemakers. So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a particularly well-articulated, if common, description of the Christian support for military service.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting was the aside from the interviewer that Rick Warren&#8217;s church &#8220;opened an outpost at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.&#8221;\u00a0 It seems an outbound Marine from Camp Pendleton, Jeff\u00a0Gonzales\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/saddleback.com\/blogs\/communityblog\/saddleback-commissions-camp-leatherneck-pastor\/\">&#8220;commissioned&#8221; by the church<\/a> to lead a <a href=\"http:\/\/saddleback.com\/blogs\/communityblog\/a-hero-among-us---jeff-gonzales-plants-a-church-in-afghanistan-\/\">small group during his tour in Afghanistan<\/a>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s admirable foresight and an excellent way to complement the chaplains&#8217; ministries to the US servicemembers there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Rick Warren gave an interview to ABCNews&#8217; Jake Tapper in which he &#8220;defended the use of military force.&#8221;\u00a0 Apparently, this was newsworthy: Military service&#8230;is a worthy and valid vocation. In fact, the greatest compliment that Jesus ever gave, he gave to a soldier in scripture. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen such faith in all of Israel.\u201d And the Bible [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,23,891,38,5284,3136,3138,2175,149,2,10,171,3135,3137],"class_list":["post-17198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-bible","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-jake-tapper","tag-jeff-gonzalez","tag-jesus","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rick-warren","tag-saddleback-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}