Reformed Christians have often been too comfortable with state-sanctioned violence.
Reformed Christians, and American evangelicals generally, have sometimes seemed like zealous warmongers, believing their nation was seamlessly carrying forward the purposes of the kingdom of God.
Why aren’t we praying for peace? Why do we seek destruction of peoples and nations? Why do we rejoice in the damnation of souls?
When God called us to be soldiers, it wasn’t to war against the other – it was to war against the self.