Comments on: Reflections on Band of Brothers http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/ Who else would we become? Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:28:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: L.L. Barkat http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-107 L.L. Barkat Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:42:51 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-107 I hate war. Yet I remember this strange feeling after 9-11 (I live right outside NYC and my spouse happened to forego his commute to the trade towers that day)... this strange feeling, anyway, of wanting to be a soldier. This was completely inexplicable, a base instinct kind of thing. I don't know that this is confined to gender. Why, I can't even watch a boxing match, but here I felt this terrible sense of wanting to fight. I hate war. Yet I remember this strange feeling after 9-11 (I live right outside NYC and my spouse happened to forego his commute to the trade towers that day)… this strange feeling, anyway, of wanting to be a soldier. This was completely inexplicable, a base instinct kind of thing. I don’t know that this is confined to gender. Why, I can’t even watch a boxing match, but here I felt this terrible sense of wanting to fight.

]]> By: Nick Osborne http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-101 Nick Osborne Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:17:56 +0000 http://becomingourselves.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/reflections-on-band-of-brothers/#comment-101 Sarah - my wife is the same way. She cannot, will not, expose herself to explicit war or tortue movies / scenes. They stay with her a long time. And yes, I think war is inherently masculine, and I still haven't found alot of reasons to justify it. Sticking up for someone else could *possibly* be an argument. Maybe. I don't think sticking up for our own rights is a biblical reason for war, since we're called to lay them down like Jesus did, and our lack of returned aggression will reflect the kingdom more than anything else. Someone as a joke gave me a bumper sticker once, that asks the subversively profound question, "Who would Jesus bomb?" Nobody. Sarah – my wife is the same way. She cannot, will not, expose herself to explicit war or tortue movies / scenes. They stay with her a long time.

And yes, I think war is inherently masculine, and I still haven’t found alot of reasons to justify it. Sticking up for someone else could *possibly* be an argument. Maybe. I don’t think sticking up for our own rights is a biblical reason for war, since we’re called to lay them down like Jesus did, and our lack of returned aggression will reflect the kingdom more than anything else.

Someone as a joke gave me a bumper sticker once, that asks the subversively profound question, “Who would Jesus bomb?”

Nobody.

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