Perhaps not the kind you think you’ll be standing next to in Heaven, since apparently your definition of Christianity involves persecuting an old man for dealing with thieves.
I’m comfortable with how I’ll be judged.
Do you object to death in war? I’ll bet that you think that justified war isn’t murder...as do I. So we probably agree.
What we probably disagree on is what constitutes a war. God never said anything about nations or congress being necessary.
If you break into someone’s house with the intent of robbing them...you have declared war. You, as the aggressor, and the invader, have forfeited your life if it comes to that.
Simple as that.
We certainly disagree on that. But that's less germane.
I was trying to reconcile this:
I’m glad they’re dead. I’d bet that in the past they had gloated over other succesful robberies...well sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And their short lives ended on the floor of a basement, choking in blood after trying and failing to victimize an old man. Their existence was so short and meaningless that they might as well never have lived. Good.
With this:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.