great thread to draw out the rednecks who don't belong on FR
step right up . . . there's not a damn one of you that can call yourself a Christian without growing the lie in your soul
What pray tell was that outburst about?
Christians have always been permitted to bear arms in the wars of a duely constituted civil authority (the impediment in the days before Constantine was a requirement that legionaires perform pagan sacrifices), though from the day of St. Basil the Great, at least, there were penances on those who actually shed blood, and our clergy were not permitted to bear arms.
And however do you see that staking out a position on the degree to which those who accept the false teachings of Mohammed are obliged to put into practice the most violent face-value interpretation of those teachings--a matter of considerable policy importance for the conduct of the wars currently waged by America's duely constituted civil authority, wars which represent the defense of both what is left of Christendom and its secularize post-Christian remnants--makes one less Christian?
I like your tagline.
Here's another thread ..........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288252/posts