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We all are opposing war actions but Congress is not. Seems to me that we, the religious people, are rendered ineffective due to separation of church from state. The church is not waging war. The secular state is.
How can we teach our children that violence is not the answer in their own lives, when we endorse a government that is so quick to use violence to handle its own disputes?
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First, the "Turn the other cheek" was for verbal insults. Not to allow someone to throw a haymaker.
Whose responsible? Ever play a wargame? I personally quit when Zelda became incredibly violent. Then there COD1,2,34,5 and even more. This is conditioning the young that "Killing cool as long as your government supports you"
GTA, 12,3,4,5 I think the first you had to beat a prostitute to death. God of War. I could go on. But I know like you do "The love of others will grow cold"
There are two types of drone strikes
Double taps where they will strike a house twice the second time is to kill neighbors, relatives and rescue workers that come to the aid of the family that just got blown up by a USA drone strike.
The U.S. military justifies these second strikes by claiming it is suspected terrorists are the ones coming to the aid of drone strike. Any child above a certain age that is murdered by a drone strike is considered to be a enemy combatant.
Signature Strike any gathering of people is automatically considered to be enemy combatants. This type of strike has killed large groups of people gathered for weddings, funerals meetings of local officials.
Among the large numbers of veterans that have committed suicide there are drone operators that ended their lives.
For several years I was part of a monthly drone protest at CIA headquarters in Langley Virginia.
It was formed by Pax Christi and the Dorothy Day Catholic Workers and was joined by Quakers (we would at times have meetings at the Quakers Langley Hill Friends Meeting House. We were also joined by other Christian and secular groups which included other Christian groups Episcopals etc along with Code Pink and other secular peace groups. https://photobyted.smugmug.com/Category
Because there are bad people all over the world who want to kill Americans.
Why do they want to kill Americans?
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
It was estimated that since WW II we have either directly or indirectly killed between 20 and 30 million people.
Now this is an old estimate maybe 10 years old?
I would say these days it is close to 50 million and counting just look at Yemen.
Why do they want to kill Americans?
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
It was estimated that since WW II we have either directly or indirectly killed between 20 and 30 million people.
Now this is an old estimate maybe 10 years old?
I would say these days it is close to 50 million and counting just look at Yemen.
I think the question you've asked here -- "Why do they want to kill Americans" -- is very important when we are looking at moral issues.
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