Who Is God On The Side Of?
Who Is God On The Side Of? The Same God, Prayers, and the Race of Witnessing A Critique of the Conception of God Between Religion, Nationalism, and Violence British soldiers pray as they go to war. Their hands raised to the sky: "O Allah, grant us victory!" Arab soldiers do the same: "O Allah, make us victorious!" Israeli officers pray: "May YHVH be with us!" Everyone turns to their own holy book and to God, but most often this God is actually the same God. Yet at the end of the war, one side wins. And after victory or defeat, everyone still believes in the same God. This contradiction is not theological but political. The real question is this: Whose side is God on? ⚔️ ARMED FACTIONS, THE SAME GOD: WHO IS THE STRUGGLE AGAINST? In many parts of the world, religious leaders deploy God in favor of their own nations. British clerics bless their king. Arab clerics issue fatwas to protect their rule in God’s name. Israeli rabbis find justifications i...