John Shelby Spong

Former Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Newark

John Shelby Spong

His best-selling books include "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism," "A New Christianity for a New World," "Why Christianity Must Change or Die," and "Eternal Life."

War is failure

War always represents failure in foreign policy. In a pre-missile, pre-atomic bomb, pre-civilian victims of warfare era, people argued for something they called a just war. Resisting Adolf Hitler may have been the last gasp of that argument. I cannot see how anyone calls any war since just.

By John Shelby Spong | December 21, 2009; 1:15 PM ET Save & Share:
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"The first gulf war was just."

The war against the Serbs' "ethinic cleansing" of Bosnian Muslims was also just.

Posted by: 5amefa91 | December 27, 2009 10:33 PM
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The first gulf war was just.

Spong is just another in the long line of not thinking of the definitions of good versus evil.

Posted by: Counterww | December 25, 2009 3:32 PM
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