[LearsFool]

I...regard a love of war tantamount to a love of wholesale murder, which is what it is.

That's a straw man.

I am not a pacifist, and am surprised a Christian (perhaps not) so loosely accuses people of things without evidence.

Did I do that? Quote me.

Naw, I didn't call you a pacifist. Your selected Biblical citations, on the other hand, are the typical pacifist explanation for God's commands to Israel to make war.

Your original statement was "I regard war as an evil thing. No good has ever come from any war." In view of the fact that God commanded Israel to make war, you'll have to do better than merely citing your years of study.

[Hank Kerchief]

I thought you did:

“I’d suggest few(er) citations from pacifist sermons. “

If that’s not what you meant to imply, I apologize.

I do not believe in God, and find it very difficult to take the pronouncements of anyone who commands, “thou shalt not kill” and a few pages later is commanding the wholesale killing of men, women, children and animals as the basis of what is good. Not saying you shouldn’t, but you can understand why I don’t.

Hank