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To: KDD
"relieving legality of the burden of moral rightness?"

Sounds like democrats to me.

75 posted on 05/06/2007 2:01:24 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"relieving legality of the burden of moral rightness?" Sounds like democrats to me.

Example:

"Thou shall not kill." vs the death penalty.

"If a man strike you on one cheek turn the other" vs War.

The term "Christian nation" is an oxymoron. A state must take actions 24/7 to maintain domestic peace and tranquility. Necessary, even imperative, actions like capital punishment and waging war contradict the core Christian ethical requirements. Thus, in my spiritual tradition war is never, ever, ever, justified within the realm of kingdom ethics (those actions commanded or prohibited in the here and now by the New Testament and binding upon believers until the Second Coming). See Jean-Michel Hornus, It Is Not Lawful For Me To Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence, and the Sate, and John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Eerdmans:1972, 260 pgs.).

There is no Godly blessing to be pronounced over the killing of fellow humans. There is no strand of New Testament teaching or slivers of proof-text verses that put a Christian stamp of approval upon war. War is hell. War is of the devil. And anyone who thinks that there are or can be rules for the civilized, organized, lethal infliction of deadly force is delusional. The object of war is the utter annihilation and destruction of the enemy. War crimes and crimes against humanity are what the victors charge against the losers.

A people can be moral...but a government?

83 posted on 05/06/2007 2:14:18 AM PDT by KDD (Ron Paul for President)
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