[soc.religion.christian] Just War

jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) (06/02/91)

In article <May.26.23.18.44.1991.24676@athos.rutgers.edu> daly@strawber.princeton.edu (John Daly) writes:
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+Who is innocent?  Who other than God is qualified to make that kind
+of judgement?  I ask these questions because it seems to me the very

And who other than the Diety can exact the penalty for said Judgement.
Countries go to war over the most 'earthly' of reasons, essentially
greed or the protection from greed. The U.S. is an Imperial Power on
this earth at this time and behaving as such. There is no
'justification' in any sense other than "we have it and we're going
to use it to our advantage". This is what any other major power has
done. I object to the 'God is on our side' as a reason for engaging
in warfare. I would call such reasoning 'presumption'. As for using
ancient Hebrew models, I have yet to find the text which says for
Christians to set up a Theocracy similar to ancient Israel, even
some Jews disagree with the modern incarnation of Israel.

If I defend myself against attack, I do so because I value my
existence over the existence of the attacker. That simple.
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John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu