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God said “Thou shalt not murder.” I don’t think there is much room for debate there no matter who did it.

Please explain if you feel the same in other situations such as:

Execution of a murderer convicted in a court of law.
Fatal shooting of a rapist in the act by his intended victim.
Bombing of military target, with numerous military fatalities, in the course of a war.
Assassination of a universally reviled dictator such as Hitler, Pol Pot or Stalin.

I am genuinely interested in your response to this.

God said “Thou shalt not murder.” I don’t think there is much room for debate there no matter who did it.

Funny, I don't hear this line used when we hunt down and kill terrorists in other countries, Somalia or Yemen for example. These killings are in countries against whom we are not at war. I completely support them, as does almost everyone else here, but that doesn't change the fact that they are outside the law.

The worst terrorists in the world today have killed far, far fewer than this man. And we aren't talking about 16 cell embryo's here, we're talking in many cases about babies who are old enough that they could live outside the womb, if given the chance.

Of course, in the case of the terrorists, you might argue that since it is our government doing it, rather than a private citizen, that makes it legal, and thus not murder. Alright then, what about Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe? I have seen hundreds of posts here about how some citizen of Zimbabwe should just take him out (and I agree). I have seen not one post, literally not a single one, saying that God wouldn't approve of that because it was "murder". Yet Miller has killed far more than Mugabe.

So, are our brave soldiers "murderers"? Would someone who stood up to genocide in Rwanda, or Zimbabwe, or Hitler's Germany have been a murderer? Or are you and many others here just hypocrites?