These writings reflect my views on issues related to our human and social responsibilities in areas of national or public policy. For the most part, they do not rely on my faith-related writings in What God? for their reasoning—for certainly they must stand on their own merit in the secular marketplace of opinion and reason. Those uncomfortable with or rejecting of faith-based considerations should not be burdened with reading these pieces in a context they may consider prejudiced or unwelcome.
Still, When War? does openly lean on my view of Christian principles as much as practical realism and reason to state it's case—and finds its way to the same answers on both roads. And surely it is my view that for the Christian, for any person of faith in God, the resolution of these issues should follow in a compelling, principled and humanitarian way from consideration of their tenets of faith. I believe that these writings also do just that, flowing from and building on, as they do, my writings in What God? And the inspiration or motivation to write them can also be found in the Prefatory Comments to What God?
Greg Hudson
October 2007
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