From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 17:33:15 EST
douglas.hayworth@perbio.com wrote:
> Everyone seems to be putting in his/her two denari worth on this thread.
> In my opinion, only George's much earlier post describing the issues
> surrounding the just(ifiable) war issue have been worth the read -
Yes, but George is a bone fide theologian and his posts are always more astute than what many of us have to offer.
> giving
> me something to think about. Here are a couple of other (possibly) helpful
> thoughts.
>
> 1) Jesus' statement about rendering unto Ceasar what is Caesar's and unto
> God what is God's seems a more useful idea than WWJD in regard to going to
> war. Although we are a democracy and should vote based on our convictions,
> in daily life most of us are mere pawns; if we are drafted to support our
> country militarily, etc., we must have pretty substantial and unambiguous
> reasons not to comply. Nowhere do we see Jesus caring one iota whether a
> person he ministered to was a Jew, a regular citizen, or a Roman officer.
> He never implied that it was immoral, in principle, for a believing
> Centurian soldier to remain so even though the soldier's government
> occupied Israel and persecuted the Jews and the early church.
>
> 2) Not that his is the final word on the matter, but C.S. Lewis wrote
> (transcribed speech, I think) about why he wasn't a pacifist. If I
> remember correctly, his reasons were somewhat like what I have put forth
> above. I think I will go home a give it a read.
Another one by C.S. Lewis along these lines may be found on the web at:
http://www.mit.edu/~mcguyton/ABSK/MereChristianity/merech17.htm
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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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