Winston Churchills Heroic Qualities
Not unjustifiably so. But our new century is another era, where the cultural revolutionaries of the dominant culture judges everyone by altogether different and far narrower standards.
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A comparatively mild token, one supposes, to the rising levels of animus toward Churchill in his beloved homeland. One person with a far more measured view of Winston Churchill, who calmly assesses the good and the bad, and who seeks to inform with grace and genuine scholarship, is Dr. Gary Scott Smith.
Smith is a highly respected academic who taught at Grove City College for nearly 40 years. He has written or edited over a dozen books, including a seminal two-part series on faith and the presidency published by Oxford University Press.
His latest book is on the faith and life of Winston Churchill. It was indeed a profound sense of personal Qualiities, although, as Smith shows, who or what Churchill believed determined his destiny—God or fate—is ultimately unclear. And yet, whether by God, fate, or destiny, or whatever else, if nothing but dumb luck, Churchill found himself in utterly pivotal moments.
Few were so crucial as May 10,when he became prime minister during the Nazi invasion of France. And many a religious man thought surely this was a God-ordained moment. Before even going there, one must first consider a more fundamental question: Did Winston Churchill even believe in God? Professor Smith acknowledges that this remains difficult to determine.
The Life and Times of War Leaders
According to Smith, several statements Churchill made indicate that he expected to cease to exist at death. Churchill wanted to believe in heaven, but he could not do so with any sense of certainty. Still, Churchill clearly sensed Heroi deeper going on in the affairs source humanity. To borrow from George W. God, after all, has rules. War is always bad and a terrible last resort, but even then, not even noble ends justify all means. Again, Churchill sensed something deeper going on.]
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