Posted on 12/09/2002 3:38:47 AM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
RECENT NEWS stories indicate that the White House and new Republican controlled Congress intend to put the president's faith-based initiative high on the agenda for 2003. But the president is not acknowledging another faith-based initiative - the strong majority of Christian leaders opposing a war against Iraq.
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This guy's spoutin' absolute Barbra Streisand...has he spoken with all the church leaders or does he have poll results proving his hypothesis?! Methinks not...this is just his personal rant and he realizes how weak his argument is, so he pretends to be speaking for "most church leaders"!!
Dethrone the Murderous Tyrant...NOW!!!
SHEEEESH...MUD
1.Just war theory, where our national security is at stake as in the case where we are attacked.
2.Biblical pacifism, based primarily on teachings of Jesus and Sermon on the Mount, followed by the three Historic Peace Churches, The Society of Friends (Quakers), Mennonites, and Church of the Brethren.Which states all war is sin.
3. Holy War theory, which was the position during the Crusades a millenium ago.It is about the same as the radical Muslim view of conversion by force and for the cause of God.
A point of view,although rather obscure might be applicible in the war on terror.D.Bonhoeffer was a Biblical pacifist who returned to Germany during World War Two and became involved in the plot to assassinate Alolph Hitler by blowing him up.He was arrested and executed by the Nazi's shortly before his camp was liberated by the Allies in 1945. The term is "The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical"Which basically means that someone such as a Sadaam is so evil that killing him is far better ethically than to let him continue to go on when perhaps millions of lives may be spared by ending his reign.Something that we might consider.
My question, exactly.
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