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Ponder Leaving Hometown in Iraq
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Mission accomplished (assuming the mission was the destruction of a Church that has been in Iraq for two millennia). But who cares? Salvation really comes through democratic capitalism and American military power in the mideast, not through Jesus Christ. So if the Church is annihilated there, it\u2019s not that big a loss. And besides some of Saddam\u2019s goons were Christian, so the Church had it coming. The point is, the war was a triumph and not morally problematic in the slightest.<\/p>\n

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Ponder Leaving Hometown in IraqMission accomplished (assuming the mission was the destruction of a Church that has been in Iraq for two millennia). But who cares? Salvation really comes through democratic capitalism and American military power in the mideast, not through Jesus Christ. So if the Church is annihilated there, it\u2019s not that big a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLast Christians...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ponder Leaving Hometown in IraqMission accomplished (assuming the mission was the destruction of a Church that has been in Iraq for two millennia). 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