Is it not Evil in and of itself to Kill Human Beings and Destroy their Country?

Question

Why is there a Culture of Death and Destruction prevalent in our World Today? What can be done to change this Self-Destructiveness against Ourselves and Others?

Answer 1

It is evil. The U.S. has repeatedly done this-- and not just in Iraq. You have to go back passed Afghanistan, Bosnia, passed the first Gulf War, beyond the US "intervention" (read: training and funding of death squads) in Central America, beyond the Secret wars, beyond Vietnam, go back beyond the bombing campaigns, beyond the nuclear bombs-- and keep going, right passed WWI and WWII, passed every trained military squad, or CIA backed coup-- you have to go all the way to back the first "settlers" in the US and think about how they themselves decimated the nation of peoples that was already here. Yes, of course this is evil. What can be done to change this?

People in the US need to change their government, not just by getting rid of Bush but by changing the racist classist structure, reducing military spending, and investing in their own people. The media must be regulated so that not only 6 companies (that are all in line with the politicians) have a voice-- we need a truly independent media for a truly informed public. Then the US must make reparations-- and not the same old structural adjustment policies that come with strings attached as economic "bailouts" that end up tanking the economy of the country they are supposedly helping, but genuine reparation money given in a spirit of repentance.

Until that happens we can be in solidarity with the global justice movement, try to help and give to others in a spirit of humility--most of the capital in the US was either stolen or acquired unethically anyway--with fear and trembling we can pray to God in repentance for our mindless consumerism, for our blindness, for the genocidal acts of this government-- and then we can get up off our knees and act. If the US people truly stood up and said "enough is enough" we could at least fight to change the government. We citizens of the US ought to be in streets shutting everything down until our government-- quite frankly--puts its money where its mouth is as a "Christian nation", repents and begins the likely endless process of reparations. We can never give back what the government has destroyed, but we can beg forgiveness, we can work with other nations to strive for peace and cooperation, we can change.

I hope this helps answer your question. peace to you

Answer 2

It is the nature of our species to compete against each other in the race to exploit the environment. War and the ever-increasing destructiveness of war are the result of our ability to develop ever more powerful technologies of destruction. This is unlikely to change until a sufficient percentage of the population realizes the survival value of empathy and compassion for others, both for preserving our species and for sustaining our world.

Answer 3

Unfortunately the West, which values life, has to battle Islam, which declared a war on the West. The Arab world and much of the Muslim world do not value life. Their culture is a culture of death. Young Muslim children are taught to hate the U.s, Israel, and Jews.
They key to changing this destructive behavior is indeed through education, especially the education of the young.

Answer 4

Education.

Education helps stop religious extremism, and it helps people understand each other. One of the most important things for young people to learn is that all people are pretty much the same. There is no reason to hate any group.


Of course, wars and killing are bad, and nearly everyone knows this (especially in the U.S., where everyone today thinks the leaders are crazy).

Answer 5

yes, it is not evil--You've thrown a blanket over everything thus you have covered reason and reality. Each war is unto its self. The war today--is a war that cannot be won. This is a geopolitical war with tribes that have always fought for supremacy over contested land. We, at this point , need to get out and let them handle their own politics.

Answer 6

Why is there a custom of dying and Destruction generally utilized in our international right this moment? In our international right this moment, what do you advise right this moment, its continually been there. as long as people have a brian there'll continually be transformations in critiques, merely look at poltics, whilst international locations or different communities of folk do no longer purely like the critiques of yet another group they are going to continually be acts of violence. the two with the aid of wars or with the aid of terrorist acts. when you consider that whilst is it merely in our international right this moment ?>

Answer 7

Yes, it's "evil". But then again, so is over-populating the world by saving all kinds of lives and lengthening them by ten, twenty, thirty years or more.
If we didn't have so many people competing for esources, there wouldn't be such wars.
Even chimpanzees show that!

Answer 8

Killing as a soldier in time of war between countries is not sin. It is simply doing your duty to God and to your country. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's; render unto God what is God's.

Answer 9

Depends on which country you're in. In America its perfectly fine- but when you're the country we're bombing, they call US evil.

Funny how that works... kind of takes the meaning out of the word EVIL doesn't it?

Answer 10

Yes, if the action was politically motivated, but apparently not if the action was *the will of God.*