Jun 23, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 15 segments
Is war ever justified? If so, when? Was the American Revolution a just cause? What about Iran? In this episode of the Kenwood Institute Podcast, Institute director Tom Sculthorpe has a conversation…
Tom SculthorpeHost
Clint ArmaniGuest
All right, we're talking about war today, and let's just start with a question I know that pastors like John MacArthur have commented on.
I'm definitely not in a position to have an argument against it, so I don't have a good reason to say otherwise.
I think that there are maybe a handful of legitimate questions that we can ask about it.
about, say, the behavior of the colonists in Massachusetts, especially, and how that squares with a, how it squares with a Romans 13 kind of submission to governing authorities command.
And George is not listening to any of their pleas for mercy or anything like that.
But, you know, I mean, a lot of the founders had big old plantations and stuff.
All right, we're talking about war today, and let's just start with a question I know that pastors like John MacArthur have commented on.
I'm definitely not in a position to have an argument against it, so I don't have a good reason to say otherwise.
I think that there are maybe a handful of legitimate questions that we can ask about it.
about, say, the behavior of the colonists in Massachusetts, especially, and how that squares with a, how it squares with a Romans 13 kind of submission to governing authorities command.
And George is not listening to any of their pleas for mercy or anything like that.
But, you know, I mean, a lot of the founders had big old plantations and stuff.
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