Does Memorial Day Honor Darth Vader?

Tony Campolo’s RedLetter Christians site carries for Memorial Day its requisite anti-American blog, warning Christians not to honor the war dead with too much reverence, since they were victims of “war profits” and killed lots of innocent people and were essentially going AGAINST a non-violent Jesus. The author is an activist Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) clergy in Florida who often blogs against drones, Guantanamo, and other manifestations of the Evil Empire.

“While I find the inclusion of this nationalist holiday in worship a wholly inappropriate, theologically unjustifiable practice, I find it doubly disturbing that from what I have seen churches do little to introduce much needed truth to the occasion,” the truth-telling minister writes.