Posted on 12/05/2009 6:00:32 PM PST by NYer
“Many of our fathers, mine included (a Army Air Corps pilot), would have told you that the Japanese were savages with POWs”
POWs captured by the German Nazis had a much better chance of surviving than those captured by the Japanese Nazis.
“These weapons are so awful that perhaps remembering people’s stories will help us realize why it is important not to let crazy governments have access to them.”
How? By attacking them first? Does that meet the criteria for a just war?
Seems like those criteria require a country to sit on its hands and let its enemies build up arms indefinitely.
“Even when they raped or murdered innocent civilians?”
Oh, narses, that’s not worthy of you.
Rapes and murders by Americans in WWII were exceedingly few, and never an instrument of policy, as were the Rape of Nanking and the lesser-known Rape of Manila.
In that case, I expect you to get on the case of your fellow Catholics the next time it happens.
Amen!
“I believe that for Christians to draw the distinction between “kill” and “murder” is actually mincing words.”
There are no rational grounds to think that. The difference between killing, say, in a struggle against Evil, and murder, are greater than those between a mugger cutting with a switchblade and a surgeon cutting with a scalpel.
Anyone innocent, for that matter.
There are also some popular churches which teach religion in the same fashion the Talmud teaches the Mishna, rather than simply letting the spoken Memra be used by God the Holy Spirit in the human spirit and mind of the believer in fellowship with God through faith in Christ, continually sanctifying the mind and spirit of the believer in fellowship with Him.
Any man-made tradition which impugns the Holy Word of G-dI agree with you, but I would go further.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
is not only wrong, but is blasphemous and those who teach
it are false shepherds and I'm sure that YHvH will hold them
accountable.
Thank God you’re not describing about the Catholic Church, which was founded by Christ, the second person of the Blessed Trinity and is guided and protected to this day by the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Blessed Trinity.
One God in Three Persons, the Holy Trinity.
So, is anybody going to by the book??? ;0)
By that logic a belligerent can define anyone they choose as an enemy and then kill them. I’m pretty certain the NAtional Socialist Party did that.
I feel very, very sorry for you.
Unconditional surrender was from Roosevelt and caught everyone, including the allies by surprise when he announced it at the Quebec Conference. Whether it was the right policy or not is a rich matter for debate, but it was a first in modern war.
I guess it could be like cutting out a cancer. Being God he would have known the future and the evil these people would have spread amongst his chosen. Something about His prophesy had to come about and them going against His people time and time again after being warned of the consequences they would face, they ran out of chances.
In the Torah, Yahweh asked the Israelites to kill once. He told Moses and Joshua to remove those poisoned by the Canaanite religion from the land. They were like Muhammad's Muslims: immoral, terrorizing, plundering, enslaving, and murdering. Allah, by contrast, gave Muslims hundreds of commands to kill and he especially hated Christians and Jews, ordering Muslims to fight them until they were “wiped out to the last.” This is fundamental Islam - the very core of Mohammad's message.
It wasn’t deliberate at all. Before EVERY major bombing raid, leaflets were dropped warning the population to evacuate. So anyone left was an accident, or “deliberate” on the part of the Japanese. Sorry, I have no mercy for such a society. They had chances to save “the children.”
I suggest you take that up with Christ himself as you look to the instructions given to the Israelites in regards to the capture of the Promised Land.
When it’s their’s instead of ours..
And?
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