With God on Our Side
Bob Dylan
pages 915-916
The main argument in Bob Dylan's work With God on Our Side is that people believe God or the higher power they believe will take their side in a war which causes people to rationalize the morality of the conflict. More specifically, Dylan is saying that people will believe they are right in a war because God will take their side. He writes, "When the Second World War came to an end we forgave the Germans and we were friends though they murdered six million in the ovens they fried the Germans too have God on their side." (page 915) He is saying here that God will not take sides in a fight and that believing he will makes actions in war even more terrible. In conclusion, it is Dylan's belief that believing God will take a side in a war is not the way to rationalize the morals of a particular decision.
In my opinion, Dylan is right. However, I think it is okay for people to believe in the power of God to protect soldiers, but I don't think God would take a side and help a particular group of people win. For example, most religions that believe in God believe that we are all here on Earth as His children. I don't believe that He would choose one group of His children to help kill another. Therefore, I agree with Dylan's belief that using God as rationalization for war is not right.
