Christians and war make odd bed fellows. Theologians of every Christian stripe basically agree on a few things and one of them is that war is something to be undertaken as a last resort and is to be undertaken with great humility and great sadness. War is not something to be celebrated, glamorized, or idealized even when necessary.
This broad theological consensus on how to view war puts President Bush’s recent comment to an Australian leader that “We are kicking ass” into even sharper relief.