By Tom Quiner

This Veteran’s Day, I pay tribute to all the men and women who have served this nation in the armed forces. Thousands and thousands have given their lives in the name of freedom.

We thank-you for your service to America.

A letter writer in the Des Moines Register gave voice to us all in this lament:

” … I wish I could think as I did as a child that the human race is too civilized, too knowledgeable, too humane to solve its problems with war.”

The war to end all wars has never come.  Why?

Why does God allow war?

War’s very existence is proof to some that God doesn’t exist. And yet C.S. Lewis suggests that God allows war for a reason. Here is an excerpt from his story, The Screwtape Letters, where the demon, Screwtape, explains God’s logic:

“This, indeed, is probably one of…