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To: KDD
I call BS to your entire post.

Thats a nice little image you have there. It manages to mock both God and our President at the same time. Kudos.
462 posted on 07/21/2007 8:38:15 PM PDT by LightBeam (Support the Surge. Support Victory.)
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To: LightBeam
You mock God with suppositions that you know His Will.

Attaching His authority to an official of the State is blasphemy.

Akin to the heresey of the money changers at the Temple.

The State is a subchristian institution whose divinely ordained daily essential actions, by necessity, are fundamentally incompatible with Christian ethics.

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.

Where, in Christian spiritual tradition is war 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. But I digress.

Can you tell me the meaning of idolatry?

Or has God directly and specifically revealed His will and purpose to you and G.W. Bush?

471 posted on 07/21/2007 9:22:50 PM PDT by KDD (Don't worry:Be Happy)
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