[BlueLancer]

This whole paradox is one of the reasons that I ceased to be a Christian when I became old enough to construct and rationalize my own value system. I don't have to worry about this "turn the other cheek" or "forgive them, they know not what they do" stuff.

Stark bloody vengeance and punishment is what I have in mind ... and what I hope to see carried out.

200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.
Kill them all ... nits make lice.
(COL Chivington, Sand Creek)

[sinkspur]

This whole paradox is one of the reasons that I ceased to be a Christian when I became old enough to construct and rationalize my own value system. I don't have to worry about this "turn the other cheek" or "forgive them, they know not what they do" stuff.

You should worry.