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Women in Ministry.

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In “The War God’s Pleas,” Taylor relates how the war god “usually inspires his servants with some sort of excuse for any particular war which he leads them to undertake.” Conquest, revenge, liberty, patriotism, religion, slavery, and peace—all are used by the war god in his pleas for war. Taylor marvels that “under the domination of the war god the man who loves his country too well to want her plunged into the maelstrom of war is not considered a patriot.” And it is not just the religion of paganism that is used by the war god. “Various corrupted forms of Christianity” have also been used “to kindle strife and spill blood.” But Christians who serve the war god and have “resorted to carnal weapons and physical force in a vain effort to dethrone evil and establish righteousness in the earth” have forgotten that “spiritual weapons under the power of God are mighty enough to overthrow every stronghold of Satan and bring complete conquest.” The war god so warps the minds of men that “they trample the law under foot, and go forth hating men and working desolation and death, and are yet able to look the world in the face and say they are doing their dreadful work in the interest of life and peace.”