I continue to be flabbergasted by Christian leaders who are promoting war and violence as the solution to the issue in Gaza. I am constantly hearing things like: “Hamas is evil and must be eradicated”—as if Hamas will actually be eradicated by this war (more on this point later); and“Just war theory says that self-defense is acceptable and even necessary”; and,Then there was Russell Moore’s article, “Bothsideism About Hamas is a Moral Failure.In fact, I believe that this sort of rhetoric is greatly mistaken and is itself far more than a “moral failure.” As I asked in an earlier post, How can anyone rejoice at death?