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Old 09-18-2010, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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How do Christian soldiers go into battle and rationalize the "thou shall not kill"
Commandment?

just curious
"conscientious objector"...or they enter fields/services where shooting at others is not their primary focus.
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Old 09-18-2010, 10:59 AM
 
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"conscientious objector"...or they enter fields/services where shooting at others is not their primary focus.
Aiding and abetting is a serious sin.
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Old 09-18-2010, 08:55 PM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Aiding and abetting is a serious sin.
Being a clerk, or a medic, isn't aiding or abetting.
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Old 09-19-2010, 11:42 AM
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Location: North Pacific
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How do Christian soldiers go into battle and rationalize the "thou shall not kill"
Commandment?

just curious
In what context does a soldier enter into that he should not kill?
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Old 09-19-2010, 04:53 PM
 
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Being a clerk, or a medic, isn't aiding or abetting.

Then I was wrong to go on welfare to fight the Viet Nam war?
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Old 09-19-2010, 04:55 PM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:04 PM
 
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How do Christian soldiers go into battle and rationalize the "thou shall not kill"
Commandment?

just curious
In the context of Ten Commandments: in commandment #6 "kill" refers to murder and nothing else.

The 6th Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," Does This Command Forbid All Killing?
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Bradenton, Florida
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Quakers don't make such a distinction.
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:10 PM
 
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Communism...
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Old 09-19-2010, 05:13 PM
 
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Some stats here.
Communism is not a religion. No matter what you want to believe.



What a surprise, another religious whacko link.

Crazed christers & muslims do.
Crazed christers have always.
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archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness
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: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Religion - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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