2007-09-11 08:09:39 · 10 answers · asked by Page 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An idea first advocated by Cicero and later developed by Ambrose and Augustine.
2007-09-11 08:10:37 · update #1
The idea justified the use of military force.
2007-09-11 08:11:19 · update #2
morally obligated to protect children........
Its fascinating how no one considers the children that we firebomb. With the fireworks display of shock and awe. With fuel air burst weapons. This country has little love for their own children, the first workers in factories were children
http://www.dinsdoc.com/abbott-1.htm
Child sexual predators get out early time after time and minor drug offenders occupy the cells that should have held these degenerates.
2007-09-11 08:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pacifism assumes that the aggressor has a conscience and will listen to reason. In effect, pacifism works only when the aggressor is a pacifist - that is, never!
That was the problem with Vietnam, which was a Bhuddist nation when the French army came in the 19th century. They tried reasoning, but the French had no conscience.
It took them almost a hundred years to learn that if you want to get the white man off your back, you have to pick up a gun and go into the jungle and fight until the French or the Americans
figure out that you are not going to take it anymore and it's not worth it for them to try to put a collar and a leash around your neck.
2007-09-11 23:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by marvinsussman@sbcglobal.net 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are asking about the subjective intent of people who died thousands of years ago? That is an impossible question to answer.
Both Paul and Peter seems to suggest that the State has the right to use force to enforce justice. There is also the numerous examples of Old Testament Israel going to war with God's consent. So I suppose that the Church fathers realized that total pacifism was not called for in the Bible.
2007-09-11 17:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once saw a very interesting fictional movie, the 1956 "Friendly Persuasion" starring Gary Cooper, about Quakers trying to remain true to their pacifist convictions during the Civil War.
I personally am not a pacifist.
Some thoughts on this issue:
Is the Lord a God of Peace or of war?
http://www.carm.org/diff/Rom15_33.htm
Should a Christian go to war?
http://www.carm.org/questions/war.htm
2007-09-11 15:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Rella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have the strength to fight back and don't thats pacifism, its a personal choice. However you are morally obligated to protect those who cannot protect themselves, like children. So if there is a group of people wanting to kill your children, you don't wait for them to do it and them take them to court. You protect your children by fighting the enemy wherever they are, and whenever you are able, even if they are hiding behind their own children.
2007-09-11 15:21:08 · answer #5 · answered by esoteric_knight 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question....I am a Christian, but Jesus said, "Do not resist an evil person." War is not justified by God (according to the New Covenant)...
2007-09-11 15:15:44 · answer #6 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They just say what is best in any given situation,like if we are being threatened.
2007-09-11 15:19:20 · answer #7 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly it was for the national defense of a "Christian" nation.
2007-09-11 15:19:13 · answer #8 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War was more in line with their disposition.
2007-09-11 15:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
because
2007-09-11 15:16:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋