"Having found the atomic bomb, we have used it. We shall continue to use it... It is an awful responsibility which had come to us. We thank God that it [the atomic bomb] has come to us instead of to our enemies and we pray that he may guide us to use it in his ways and for his purposes." - President Harry Truman after dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, January 9, 1945. (Quote found in Jesus for President, p. 200)
"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized to scourged to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison." - Adolph Hitler. (Also found in Jesus for President, p. 202)
Dear God,
Help us to distinguish what is of You and what is of the world because Your Name can and has been used to justify all kinds of horrifying crap. Help us to be counter-cultural in a way far, far beyond wearing "WWJD" bracelets. Help us to love our enemies - whether they be Truman/Hitler types within the Church who use Your Name for their own purposes or simply the jackasses - Christian or otherwise - in our own lives. Help me to not think of these people as "jackasses". Please God, just help us find and then portray to the world YOU and purely You, and not some twisted, agenda-based version of You.
Amen.
AMEN!
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