Thank you for the very informative responses to my blog on the theme of a "just war"; I learned a lot from them, not least that the very phrase "just war" is not a simple oxymoron. It struck me afterwards that Christian hymns and prayers are often full of bellicose language: "Onward Christian soldier"; asking St Michael the Archangel to "defend us in the day of battle"; a hymn from my youth with a line about "the war against sin" and so on. And was it St Francis de Sales who wrote that "God hates the peace of those he has destined for war"?
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Talking about angels with an atheist is like admitting to a belief in aliens
I told him everyone had a guardian angel, and that they were 'all around us at this moment'. For my atheist brother-in-law, this was too much
Francis Phillips
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