Just War and Jihad

Muslim and Christians have much to reconcile among us, no less within our communities as between them.  Differences of theology, schisms of power and self-interest divide us.  That is realism for you.  To abide by the potentially necessary use of force to protect democracy, justice, and the innocent seems the most compelling corollary of honoring Christ’s legacy.  We must receive Christ’s teaching of the forgiveness of sins to reconcile and ameliorate all political conflicts, never mistake ourselves to be the Christ whose second coming we hope to eradicate sin once and for all.