Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 10, 2011
May 09, 2011
May 11, 2011
Transcript:
Surgeon: Specialist, your sergeant says he's been blown up 17 times... Man: Well, he doesn't talk about it much, Doc, but it sure wouldn't surprise me... First Sergeant Hightower always leads from the front. And he always attracts trouble. We call him "Boomer." Surgeon: Boomer? Man: Two minutes out, boom. We have very short patrols.
The term “christlibs” (meaning Christian liberals) is obviously pejorative, as distinguished from “Christlib” (with a capital “C”) standing for “Christian libertarians.”
For a Christlib, the emphasis is on Christ. To quote their website, “At Christlib.net we value a relationship with Jesus Christ.”
By contrast, “christlibs” are liberals who, while professing agnosticism or atheism, wholeheartedly approve Jesus’s command to “love your enemies.” Most christlibs also reject the notion of a just war.
Ps. @ palin drome
Not all liberals (and despite my polemic logo, I consider myself one) are “christlibs.” I believe war is as necessary to civilization as commerce is, and that it too should be conducted with skill and efficiency—as it has not often been in Iraq and Afghanistan until this month..