A thorn beneath the shining armor: Churchill, Bishop Bell, and area bombing

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6 pages

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07/10/2009

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Table of Contents A thorn beneath the shining armor: Churchill, Bishop Bell, and area bombing Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The gradual descent of bomber command
  3. International law and violation by parties
  4. The rationale for area bombing
  5. Geoffrey Best's and his views on deceitfulness of the rationale
  6. The preacher against the Crusade
  7. Conclusion
  8. Works cited

Abstract

No one cares to challenge the idea that Hitler needed to be stopped. I cannot think of a cow more sacred in the common mind-as I have known the common mind-than the righteousness of World War II. The enemy of the Allies was so ghastly, that even much-deplored developments on the part of the "good guys"-the Bomb, for example-cannot dethrone Hitler from his place as the exemplary villain of our age.

Countless sermons, in my experience, have held up Hitler as the paragon of evil-a case-study for everything from the dangers of the gospel of self-esteem ("Hitler had good self-esteem-and look what he did!" ) to an example of anti-Christ. If this is the case now, in North America in 2008, then how much more villainous did he appear, for example, to the citizens of Britain, victims of his bombs, an isolated people whose nation trembled but remained firm before the force of the Nazi wave?

In fact, Hitler appeared so evil that the ones who opposed him could hardly help but appear good. WWII is the closest thing to a post-Christendom crusade.

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