Does God Love War?

I just found out about this interesting event when I visited the Zaytuna Institute website:

As described on the Zaytuna site, Chris Hedges is "a reporter for The New York Times and has spent 15 years covering crises in many conflict-ridden locations including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Algeria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Sarajevo and Kosovo. His debut book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, has been reviewed by the Times,The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award."

Well not only has War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning been reviewed in the above mentioned newspapers, but the Mere Islam blog has a review of it as well. A direct link to this review can be found here [138 KB Adobe Acrobat file] and it is linked to in our Book of the Month section as well.

I've been looking forward to reading Chris Hedges' What Every Person Should Know About War, but just haven't gotten around to it. His latest book, which came out in May of last year, is entitled Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America and seems to be a sobering look at the dismal state of morality in amongst common Americans and what some Divinely revealed objective morality can do to help. Although it's certainly not the type of book that I would have expected Chris Hedges to have written as a follow up to his books focusing on war. However, upon reflection, it's unsurprising that his traumatic combat experiences have motivated him to try to encouraged people to treat their fellow human beings more morally and compassionately...and that's certainly a step in the right direction.

Deen On...