Bombing of Japan is an Issue For Christians (HaShem, women, preaching)

[Prairieparson]

These protests and the protesters make as much sense as someone who wants to ban guns.

Apparently these people never heard of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7th, 1941. They attacked us. Why is an atomic bomb evil but a conventional bomb or a fire bomb OK???????????????

[ted08721]

Originally Posted by Prairieparson

These protests and the protesters make as much sense as someone who wants to ban guns.

Apparently these people never heard of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7th, 1941. They attacked us. Why is an atomic bomb evil but a conventional bomb or a fire bomb OK???????????????

who ever said a conventional or fire bomb was ok?

Pearl harbor was an attack by the Japanese military on our military, we dropped those bombs on innocent civilians.
Atomic /nuclear bombs that are available could destroy the world many times over within minutes.

[ted08721]

Originally Posted by Mike555

Nuclear weapons are not a sin. Disarmament invites aggression from hostile countries. National peace and freedom through military preparedness is the order of the day until Christ returns, because until He returns there will always be wars and rumors of war.

Pray that our country's leaders have the good sense to keep our military strong and to maintain our nuclear stockpile.

I don't think we worship the same God, we out spend Russia, China and the next 14 countries on the military, how much do you need?

[ted08721]

Originally Posted by Mike555

The commandment is against murder. Not killing.

Not all warfare is just. But a just war is from God. (1 Chron. 5:22)

Hostile nations with nuclear capability will not get rid of their nuclear weapons if they can afford to keep them. For the United States to do so would therefore invite foreign aggression. A balance of power discourages foreign military aggression.

It hasn't stopped the United States foreign aggression at all.
No war is just, wars are just in the eyes of the attacker, I don't think you will find one person that is being attacked that thinks it is just.
The Just War Theory was invented to get Christians to fight for the Roman Empire and now for the United States Empire and all the other empires, the original Christians did not fight.

[L'Artiste]

Originally Posted by ted08721

who ever said a conventional or fire bomb was ok?

Pearl harbor was an attack by the Japanese military on our military, we dropped those bombs on innocent civilians.
Atomic /nuclear bombs that are available could destroy the world many times over within minutes.

THANK YOU
THANK YOU
you took the words out of my mouth

[ted08721]

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Consider that it was projected that up to a million US and allied soldiers would die in a land invasion of Japan. QUOTE]

Japan was trying to surrender for three months before the bombs were dropped.
But that is not the point the point is that if you listen to the Gospel of the non violent Jesus you would know that it is inmoral to drop bombs on civilians or on anyone for that matter.

[ted08721]

Originally Posted by hiker45

Every time I think of the Atomic Bombs, I think of the Japanese who used American prisoners of war for medical experiments.

Just keep thinking hateful thoughts

[ted08721]

Originally Posted by king's highway

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Nagasaki had a large Christian population.


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I had just read an article about that this past week on the internet if i find it I will post it.

[ted08721]

on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs (a plutonium bomb) ever used as instruments of aggressive war (against essentially defenseless civilian populations) was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the blessings of its Catholic and Protestant chaplains.

Nagasaki is famous in the history of Japanese Christianity. Not only was it the site of the largest Christian church in the Orient, St. Mary’s Cathedral, but it also had the largest concentration of baptized Christians in all of Japan.

Some 8,500 local Christians were killed in the Nagasaki bombing.

Brother Thomas Ozaki Tagawa, speaking for other local Christians, said many were puzzled by why the United States attacked Nagasaki, Japan's largest Christian community: "Biting their lips, everybody was mortified."

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[ted08721]

In light of what Jesus said in the Gospels about love of neighbor and enemy, putting down the sword,blessed is the peacemaker etc. I just don't get it how a person can be so in love with war, revenge, killing etc and call themselve a Christian.

Houston we have a problem!