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[napoleonofnerds]

I think the Catholic habit of singing patriotic hymns on Memorial Day weekend and the first reading from Sunday (from Acts 8, the founding of the Church in Samaria, leaving out Simon Magus) form a good basis for talking about something that's been on my mind

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[pastorlenny]

Like.

[napoleonofnerds]

Yay. :)

[pastorlenny]

Do you think this precludes ministers of the gospel from making certain remarks on a national holiday such as this? Is there some appropriate way to leverage the notion of sacrifice for the common good as a means of sharing the gospel in the process of supporting the local community's honoring of soldiers killed in action?

[napoleonofnerds]

I think I'd probably try to draw the distinction between martyrdom and being killed in combat, suggest that respect for soldiers who died doing what they believed to be the right thing is something independent of being critical of (or indeed overtly hostile to) the current military order, and then lead the people in praying for the dead.

[karcy]

Seconded, although not for the same reasons.

[napoleonofnerds]

Why do you second it then?

[karcy]

A remInder that homes with imperfect governments belong only to this Earth.