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You ignore the call by the Prophet Joel (4:9-10): "... Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. "
A favorite, though less popular that the swords into plowshares citations, equally valid under the proper circumstance.
5 posted on
01/21/2009 4:14:59 PM PST by
SJackson
(The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
To: SJackson
Joel's saying is the reverse of the famous quotation in Isaiah, repeated by Micah. There is indeed a time for war.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
6 posted on
01/21/2009 4:18:18 PM PST by
goldstategop
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