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VOICES | Issue: "Castro’s license to kill?" August 03, 1996

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Disorder in the Court
June 08, 1996

Southern exposure

The modernist theology of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ("A hymn of hate," June 22/29) is reflective of the theological liberalism that had the North by the throat by the outbreak of The War Between the States. We must remember that the South Julia Ward Howe wanted to "trample" was the region dominated intellectually by the old-school heroes of our Reformed faith-Dabney, Thornwell, Palmer. The war era represented the completion of one of the great reversals in American Christendom as the North replaced its strong Calvinism with Transcendentalism while Reformed theology moved south. - Oran P. Smith, Columbia, S.C.

Support for war admirable

Oh, come, come, Mr. Smith. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has "nothing to do with the God of the Bible"? I admit that I am not personally acquainted with the author or her political persuasions, but the phrases that she uses are remarkably similar to those used by the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah. Public support for a just nation's war efforts is admirable and should be actively encouraged. Can leftists read the Bible and use it to support the war effort? Of course! To accuse those of us who recognize Mrs. Howe's allegorical descriptions of the Messiah as being of "low theological discernment" is more disturbing than is Mrs. Howe's reported background. - Donald F. Thompson, Spring Branch, Texas

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