Hate to be the one who breaks it to you, but your Pope is very wrong. War often solves severe problems, and God has used it for His purposes many times. The Pope is apparently neither a student of history nor scripture...
Please cite one New Testament verse that supports war.
The Pope is apparently neither a student of history nor scripture...
This statement is supported by ???
Even in the Old Testament war was a last resort. In the new testament it was almost unheard of, and if it did happen it was because there was no other way to resolve the issue at hand. Jesus was called the Prince of Peace, not the Prince
of War.
The only people that benefit from war is the Military/Industrial Complex war profiteers.
“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes”. ~ Major General Smedley Butler, US Marines
You're talking about the Church that developed the "Just War Theory" over the course of millenia, beginning with St. Augustine, 1700 years ago.
Regardless, there is a painfully obvious sense in which war, regardless of its justifiability, always represents a loss for humanity. Does this really require explanation?
The severe problems that lead to war... all stem from our fallen nature... therefore it is not some theological stretch to say that war is a failure of humanity.
And what problem is moving into Syria going to solve exactly?
Just ask the Afghans. War has settled their hash once or twice, right?