text: Loren, I wonder if you're being a bit melodramatic in suggesting that our non-combatancy stance is firmly rooted in scripture. And what a fundamentalistic false choice! - patriotism vs God's Word. 
  
  The social justice gospel depends upon coercion, by gunpoint if necessary. Do you just want non-Adventists to do the dirty work of enforcing justice? While Jesus eschewed the use of force to advance the Kingdom while He was on earth, He also seems to foresee a time when He will be gone, and His followers will need to use force to defend themselves. He tells Pilate, "If my Kingdom was of this world, my servants would fight." Could He be suggesting that in the kingdoms of the world, where we must render to Caesar, combatancy may be a necessary evil?
  
  It strikes me that those who find no Biblical support for a doctrine of male headship or creation literalism should be careful about reading their own biases into scripture. If our SDA uniqueness depends on our doctrines, we're in big trouble.