[Rob_0126]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rob_0126', '
')Im all for going in and cleaning house, but this is genocide to me.

Robert

[Heineken]

OK, but your original post implies that it's acceptable to slaughter rapidly today (with laser-guided bombs and M-16s), just not slowly tomorrow (via the effects of depleted uranian). I'm bothered by the inconsistency.

As for Christianity, isn't one of its sacred tenets "Thou Shalt Not Kill"?

Another inconsistency?

Or, what about the Biblical injunction, "Love Thy Enemy."

Another inconsistency?

[Rob_0126]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'O')K, but your original post implies that it's acceptable to slaughter rapidly today (with laser-guided bombs and M-16s), just not slowly tomorrow (via the effects of depleted uranian). I'm bothered by the inconsistency.

As for Christianity, isn't one of its sacred tenets "Thou Shalt Not Kill"?

Another inconsistency?

Or, what about the Biblical injunction, "Love Thy Enemy."

Another inconsistency?

[Heineken]

Luke 10:2S-28 "Love thy neighbor as thyself, and love thy enemy."

You'd better go back to Sunday school.

Who did the attacking? All evidence shows the Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11, and that Bush used the tragedy as a false pretext to invade Iraq. But even if you believe Bush's lying spiel, does it justify killing babies and their mothers in their homes in Baghdad? What would Jesus say to that?

"Thou Shalt Not Kill." One can't take it out of context, because there are no exceptions. It is the absolute pure law of God, as taken down from Mount Sinai by Moses.

Is it possible to call oneself a Christian and play fast-and-loose with the Commandments? To alter the law of God just to fit the circumstances?

[Rob_0126]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'L')uke 10:2S-28 "Love thy neighbor as thyself, and love thy enemy."

You'd better go back to Sunday school.

Who did the attacking? All evidence shows the Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11, and that Bush used the tragedy as a false pretext to invade Iraq. But even if you believe Bush's lying spiel, does it justify killing babies and their mothers in their homes in Baghdad? What would Jesus say to that?

"Thou Shalt Not Kill." One can't take it out of context, because there are no exceptions. It is the absolute pure law of God, as taken down from Mount Sinai by Moses.

Is it possible to call oneself a Christian and play fast-and-loose with the Commandments? To alter the law of God just to fit the circumstances?

[Heineken]

I appreciate your candor, Rob.

Christianity has some beautiful precepts. But they are so corrupted by people and politics as to become unrecognizable.

Yes, there's a lotta killing in the Bible, but as you say it's in the Old Testament.

If you believe in Jesus and what He stood for, you can't support killing in any form, even self-defense. Anyway, what we did to Iraq wasn't self-defense. It was naked aggression. Bear in mind that we were big supporters of Saddam until he defied us. We propped him up and turned a blind eye to his massacres. He was a US puppet, and now we're trying to replace him with another US puppet who will do our bidding.

That's all you need to know about the Iraq War to understand it perfectly.

Or, for deeper insights into what's going on, I highly recommend "The Sorrows of Empire," by Chalmers Johnson. An eye-opener on a grand and tragic scale.