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The Iran Attacks, The Christian Right, And Anti-Semitism

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I've been noticing that opposition to the Iran attacks from the right stem to some extent from both the Evangelical and Roman Catholic conservative wings. This certainly isn't to say that all Evangelicals or conservative Catholics oppose the Iran attacks, but certainly there's a strain of this in both movements. For instance the comments on Edward Feser's post that I discussed Monday seemm to agree heavily with Feser that "just war doctrine" can't apply to the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Feser says in the thumbnail on his blog that he writes "from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective", although he has recently attracted the attention of generally conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez for being "too controversial", which ought at least to suggest an elment of caution should be involved. But this comment on Feser's post from Saturday raises intriguing questions about how "conservative" those who agree w...