A Question of Commitment

Over the weekend I finished reading Uncle Tom's Cabin; a book that Abraham Lincoln is said to have credited with starting the American Civil War. When I heard that I decided that I had no choice but to read the book.

But I did not find it that powerful. Maybe it is because I was reading it nearly 200 years after it was published. Maybe it is because I have a more secular mind than what the book was targeted at. Maybe I just have a hard heart. Regardless I did not find the book to be powerful enough to start a war.

But what book, what ideas would I find powerful enough to go to war over? It is no secret that I find the current Canadian government's justice policy to be as anti-Christian as Harriet Beecher Stowe found slavery but am I willing to declare war on the Canadian government? Is this a cross I am willing to die on? Am I literally willing to give my life for the cause of holy justice and the gospel?

Am I so committed to the absolute superiority of Judeo-Christian ideals that I am willing to publicly humiliate and expose the the so-called Christian politicians who disagree with me as charlatans and false prophets or be labeled as one myself and face public humiliation like a true martyr? Am I as committed to my cause and the purity of the gospel as Stowe was?