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Posted 2002-11-23, 12:31 AM
in reply to Jamesadin's post "Do you Believe?"
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Originally posted by StonedVegeta
Yeah. They twist it in many different ways. And I know that chrisitanity looks down on violence, but thenthe question is, why is it the army fights. To protect freedom, but not religion? I could never get that. I am not saying that I am not grateful for the men who put themselves on the line, I am just sayig that I am not sure that as Christians, and Americans, we should have to resort to violence to solve all our problems. I don't think it is right to kill someone because they believe something else. Recent war on Afghanistan in general. I know it was wrong what the terrorists did, but we fought back. Sure we were angry, but we killed not only the enemy, but innocents too. It was too much for me. We can even look back into the past. Revolutionary War, Civil War. (don't even get me started on the civil war.) As americans, and supposed Christians, we fight way too much. Why not do as Mohandas Gandhi? He fought for what he believed in, and didn't draw a drop of blood.
Oh yeah, and Strider, Hitler Youth as your title. WHAT???
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That is a really good point vegeta and I wish we could live like this. The reason I think we can not is that not everyone can rise to the level at which you are thinking. When we get angered primitive human instinct comes back and we just want to fight. What we did in afghanistan was really try to take out the terrorists to prevent furture terror. You can look at this in two ways though. One, as the United States being judgemental and racist and predicting that they would cause harm to the United States again, which would probably be the case in most middle eastern countries. The second way is that we are protecting ourselves. That is how we look at it here. I dont think the millitary is retalliating as much as protecting us. The innocent people that dies were casualties of war...which unfortuantely can not be avoided...or so we here anyways. What you say about Mohandas Gandhi would be really nice but Gandhi was a very smart man and there is almost no one as smart as him. I believe his phillosophies would work in a more civilized age but we aren't capable of accepting this and until every single human being on this earth can preach and abide by non-violence I dont believe gandhis' phillosophy can work.
Rurouni storm: What about the other religions such as Hindu, judaism, and others
SilverJinx: Protestants and Catholics make war over religion and yet they are soo similar. It makes no sense and is all very sad, but true.
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