Well, It's time for me to write about this topic specifically- The American Revolution and how the decission to fight it fits with the Christian worldview as put forth in the New Testament.
Just an update for now.
When I first started researching this when my children were in elementary, I could not find more than a tiny bit of info on the 1/3 of the colonists who were against the Amer. Rev. based on their Christian convictions. I found in EERDMAN'S RELIGION IN AMERICA that it was about one third of the total population who were pacifists or consciencious neutralists; and one third were loyalists to the British Government; and one third ( the 1/3 that won the war) believed that the colonists were justified in fighting a war against the government over them- a war in which people died, people had to leave all that they had to escape the anger of their neighbors who believed different than them, etc.
Way back there when I was starting the research (circa 1993), my husband's comment when I told him I couldn't find info, was "The winners get to write the history books."
Well, I was over at the U of Houston recently and decided to see what they had. I looked up "loyalist literature" as I had tried to do 17 years earlier. I was delighted to find that they have in the library quite a few books on that subject. However, when I looked at the books I realized that maybe none had to do with Biblical objections to the war. Back to search again. I will google "Anabaptist" and "Quaker".
MISSING YOU
8 years ago
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