I was just curious to know what people thought.
2007-01-02 00:16:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay, now the reason for the dumb question, my . My agnostic husband ships out for basic a week for today. I just wanted to know that the people he was fighting for still believed he had a right to be there?
2007-01-02 00:26:03 · update #1
There are and have been great numbers of such people in the Armed Forces. They do and have done their jobs thoroughly and well, so it does not matter to me whether they were or are Christian. As long as I can, as First Sergeant, hand in a clean report to the Old Man (company commander), I don't care of you're a born-again, an atheist, a Muslim, a Jew, a Wiccan, or even a cowboy.
2007-01-02 00:29:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can You truly kill if Your not Christian, anyone else is just going through the motions; if Your ordering the carpet bombing of a village full of insurgents or just picking off terrorists one at a time as a sniper it's way better that You believe in the teachings of Christ; it ups the kill ratio by tons!!!! It's important that soldiers say to themselves "What would Jesus use as an ordnance?" when they go into the fire line and every good soldier knows Jesus was big on fire power superiority; they teach Jesus's views in West Point about achieve this! Yep, if You have to lay it down in combat there's nothing better than shooting it out for the Lord!
2007-01-02 08:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a dumb question.
It almost seems to implies that christians should be the majority in the military unless I've very much misread it.
I don't guess it can be helped if the infantry is to be a representative sample from often under-educated groups of people - they're bound to be gullible and superstitious.
Maybe its best that Christians are the majority - they believe in a comforting afterlife so they should have fewer qualms about getting shot.
2007-01-02 08:21:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why should a person's religion matter? Shouldn't they be judged instead by their actions? A person can claim to be a Christian and commit all sorts of horrors. By the same token a non-Christian can act with nothing but honor.
A person's actions should be the ONLY thing that is considered for military service.
2007-01-02 08:28:09 · answer #4 · answered by bobbert 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is a truly frightening question, simply because of the implication of the possibility of an ALL Christian military. The last thing we need in the age of nuclear weapons is a true crusade.
2007-01-02 08:23:53 · answer #5 · answered by Lone 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe as one other said, there are no atheist in foxholes. If a non-believer is in a war zone, they are playing the most dangerous game they will ever play in their life. Dying without Salvation will doom you for eternity. There is a question about this too though. the Bible says through our English translation that we will to to Hades. This in Greek does not mean Hell, it means the grave. So maybe you just die and so does your soul if you are not saved. I don't know, but either way is not what I'm looking for after my death. God is real and so is Jesus. Salvation is so very easy and so very satisfying. I don't understand some people yet it states in the Bible this will happen.
2007-01-02 08:26:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What a strange question-I would have thought practising Christians in the military were very few and far between, in the UK at any rate. In a war situation I certainly wouldn't want to rely on some bible bashing weirdo. He wouldn't have to worry about the enemy killing him-I'd shoot him myself if he was overcome by religious fervour that affected his ability to function as a normal human being.
2007-01-02 08:20:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
As an atheist who was in the military, I am for it. How could anyone have a problem with someone willing to fight for them?
2007-01-02 08:22:03 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
True Christians do not join the military.
Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword.—Matt. 26:52.
What was the attitude of the early Christians toward what Jesus taught about not resorting to violence? The book The Early Christian Attitude to War says: “Inasmuch as they [Jesus’ teachings] ruled out as illicit all use of violence and injury against others, clearly implied [was] the illegitimacy of participation in war . . . The early Christians took Jesus at his word, and understood his inculcations of gentleness and non-resistance in their literal sense. They closely identified their religion with peace; they strongly condemned war for the bloodshed which it involved.”
There would be people who will kill in war even if they are of same religions but not true Christians.
2007-01-02 08:21:39 · answer #9 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How many who claim to be Christian really are? Whether on fights for their country or not is not based on a religion.
2007-01-02 08:20:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋