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2007-06-23 05:14:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

What if the battle you were fighting was against another christianized country?

2007-06-23 05:15:21 · update #1

Funny not many replies considering the churches are full of war memorials.

2007-06-23 05:27:25 · update #2

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how many brothers are on two different sides and kill each other. we are suppose to love our neighbor as ourselves, so why would I take a gun and kill you. I sure would never take a gun and kill myself. since Jesus said the world was our neighbor, I would love you not kill you with a gun or anything else.

2007-06-23 05:25:22 · answer #1 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 1 0

Not me. This is a detestable thing to Jehovah God.

Go to this website and type in the search box: guns, or war, or weapons:

http://www.watchtower.org

This way you can find the truth on your own so it's not just an opinion of which I'm sure you get a lot of. Hope this has helped.

2007-06-23 13:47:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

There is not a single TRUE follower of Christ who would grab a gun to defend their country.

I know that 98% of the Christians are going to scream bloody murder that I said that, but this is what I have to say to them:

Jesus did not take up arms to defend HIMSELF, let alone his country. Jesus' way was not violence or retaliation. Jesus instructed us to "turn the other cheek", but that concept seems foreign to most Christians.

Sure, plenty of people call themselves Christians, but that does not make them "followers of Christ". Christ would be ABSOLUTELY ASHAMED to see his name used by so many contemporary American "Christian" warmongers.

2007-06-23 13:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by pr0ph3t1cl1v1ty 5 · 0 1

Yes, the Church says that you may defend your country, and yourself. However, there are some rules to it:
1)There is certain, grave, and prolonged violation of fundamental rights
2)All other means of redress have been exhausted
3)Such resistance will not provoke worse disorders (i.e. you can't use nukes if the country is attacking you with guns)
4)There is a wellfounded hope of success.
5)It is impossible reasonably to forsee any better solution

2007-06-23 12:38:20 · answer #4 · answered by mrcrazyfreddyman 2 · 0 3

If invaded I would allow myself to be killed, but I would never kill.

My particular faith (Catholicisms) states that a just war is only from the standpoint of direct defense. Just War has Certain standards for entering a war, certain standards to the the conduct of war, and certain standards of ending the war. All must be met (no war fought by the united states has ever been declared to meet the criteria of just war (and the only one that met the entry standards was WWII, and it fell away from the criteria in conduct)).

So No my faith does not allow for that.

2007-06-23 12:27:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

None!...How do you know this...when they came to get Christ and Peter took up a sword to defend Jesus himself and cut off the ear of one of the guards Jesus told him to stop. He said those who live by the sword will die by the sword. He also told Peter that if he wanted to he could ask for 12 legions of angels if he wanted....Then he told us to follow his example of Love...So a christian would never kill another person...

2007-06-23 12:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by bigislandbatman 3 · 0 1

No true Christian would do so.

The Bible says that true worshipers of God would "learn war no more". -Isaiah 2:4

2007-06-23 12:33:10 · answer #7 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 1 0

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