Why are conservatives supportive of War, killing and the "sport" of hunting, thou shalt not kill? pleeeezzee

Answer 1

Your question is really a mixture of a few things. First, not all conservatives support war, killing or hunting. Death in war (from fighting in a war) is not "murder", which is different from being killed during war-time fighting. Don't confuse the two, and you are.

Murder is pre-meditated, lying in wait for someone without cause. Killing on the battle field is defending something. The two are entirely different.

I don't support the so-called "sport of hunting". I support people who want game for food to properly take the animal down. Hanging a head of an animal on your wall is tasteless.

"Thou shall not kill" means that you should not go around murdering innocent people by lying in wait for them, premeditation, as murderers do. It does not refer to taking down an animal for food or a person killing someone in battle.

Answer 2

Ecclesiastes 3...to every thing there is a season. Sometimes it is not only appropriate but necessary. Consider the Revolutionary War. As far as "thou shalt not kill" it means exactly what it says. In context, it means don't murder people. That is made clear when the commandments are repeated in Dueteronomy when it states of that law, "thou shalt do no murder." Animals also did not fall under this category. Especially seeing as they were used in sacrifices

Answer 3

What I find even more amazing is that it is those conservatives who are for War are the same one's trying to take guns away from the citizens of their own country.

Answer 4

Not all conservatives are religious .... sad how those two things have gotten completely mixed together.

As for the religious conservatives that support war .... well .. it is because religious people are notorious hypocrites!