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The Believer's Cross Is No Longer Any And Every Kind Of Suffering, Sickness, Or Tension, The Bearing Of Which Is Demanded. The Believer's Cross Must Be, Like His Lord's, The Price Of His Social Nonconformity. It Is Not, Like Sickness Or Catastrophe, An Inexplicable, Unpredictable Suffering; It Is The End Of The Path Freely Chosen After Counting The Cost. It Is Not, Like Luther's Or Thomas Muntzer's Or Zinzendorf's Or Kierkegaard's Cross, An Inward Wrestling Of The Sensitive Soul With Self And Sin; It Is The Social Reality Of Representing In An Unwilling World The Order To Come.

A Conservative Is Someone Who Does Not Think He Is Morally Superior To His Grandfather.

When The Term Christian Or Even Protestant Is Used, It Seldom Refers To Any Particularly Evangelical Doctrine Or Way Of Life. More Often It Refers To A Religion Accepted By The Large Majority, Which Assures Them That God Is Not So Much A Lord Who Demands Obedience As A Handyman Who Is Available Whenever We Need Help.

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If The Tradition Which Claims That War May Be Justified Does Not Also Admit That It Could Be Unjustified, The Affirmation Is Not Morally Serious. A Christian Who Prepares The Case For A Justified War Without Being Equally Prepared For Hte Negative Case Has Not Soberly Weighted The Prima Facie Presumption That Any Violence Is Wrong Until The Case For An Exception Has Been Made.