In the battle between your religion and your country, who wins?

Religious Patriotism During World War I (1914-1918):

a "Tri-Faith" Perspective

What would cause religious leaders of three different faiths to stop preaching peace and preach war instead?

Three Religious Journals

America (Catholic)

The Jewish Criterion (Reform Jewish)

The Christian Century (Protestant)

Each was "Patriotic" in their own way before the war. But the war gave their patriotism focus.

Catholics had Something to Prove

~ Richard Tierney
~ Bishop Thomas Shahan

JUDAISM wanted to have its cake and eat it too

~ Rabbi Moses Gries
~ L.S. Levin

PROTESTANTISM just wanted everyone to get along

~ Soldiers on a field

Pitfalls of Judging History

Dr. Charles S. Medbury’s
New Year’s Resolutions

"I will enlarge my soul by love for those from whom I find myself recoiling. No man shall ever feel his color or his caste in my presence, for within my heart of hearts there shall be no consciousness of it. The man who has fallen shall find in me a friend, the woman down, a helper."