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To: ClearCase_guy
The Bible is full of war. God is not necessarily against war.

Interesting reasoning. The Bible is full of perversions. Is God not necessarily against perversions?

The Ten Commandments say that we should not commit murder. Killing the enemy in war is not "murder" and is not proscribed (see #1)

What about the millions of innocent civilians who have been killed (by us) in the fire bombings and nuclear bombings of WWII or the napalm bombs and arch lights of Vietnam or the artillery and tank fire of all recent wars? And now we have Marines being prosecuted for "murdering" innocent civilians in Iraq. However you want to parse it, there is ending of lives - lives of those already living in this world, with awareness and relationships and ongoing activities. How is a potential human, almost completely unaware of its environment or existence, not yet functioning in this world, more important than those? Why not work on eliminating the killing related to war before getting all wound up in the family affairs of people and circumstances we know little or nothing about?

19 posted on 11/15/2007 2:03:56 PM PST by Semper
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To: Semper
How is a potential human, almost completely unaware of its environment or existence, not yet functioning in this world, more important than those? Why not work on eliminating the killing related to war before getting all wound up in the family affairs of people and circumstances we know little or nothing about?

What about AS important? Our law treats the embryo as a non-being/a being of non consequence.

43 posted on 11/15/2007 11:53:47 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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