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To: Mrs. Don-o
Your points are respectable I think (not wanting to comb through for every possible nuance) BUT: intentional killing of the innocent is always murder. If that's not murder, then what is murder?

Perhaps it is murder. If so, then I am willing to accept the necessity of being a murderer, if being such is necessary to the survival of those I love.

That's one thing about war: while Jesus said "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends", sometimes a man may find it necessary to lay down his soul as well.

Adding to what I said in post #112, I would add "(4) I am willing to accept the deaths of multiple enemy civilians if I judge that doing so saves one American, either military or civilian". For example, if a Taliban mortar crew is shelling a US outpost from an Afghan village, I would support an airstrike leveling the village rather than accept casualties among US forces.

144 posted on 08/22/2011 6:03:43 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: PapaBear3625
"Perhaps it is murder. If so, then I am willing to accept the necessity of being a murderer...That's one thing about war: while Jesus said "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends", sometimes a man may find it necessary to lay down his soul as well."

This is quite shockingly wrong, if you really mean it as written. A logical inference would be that you see God's Word as a lie, and God's Law as worthless, and prefer to be in hell --- prefer to see your loved ones in hell as well, as they would be if they admired and emulated your example.

It means you would see an infinite offense against your infinite Lord as the lesser of two evils, rejecting His aid and choosing instead to rely on powers provided by His Enemy. And this kind of deal always involves seizing a very fleeting advntage, at the price of eternal horror.

And there's no guarantee it would even "work" --- the Enemy typically likes to renege even on that, so that you and all that you love get to burn here, and hereafter as well.

Think this through again, I beg you.

152 posted on 08/22/2011 10:06:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Justice and judgment are the foundation of His throne." Psalm 89:14)
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