Comments on: War never again… http://www.bloggernews.net/19382 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/19382#comment-74750 Nancy Reyes Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:10:53 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19382#comment-74750 Yup. No more war. "unconditional respect for all of human life in all of our daily activities." Ah yes, but we live in a fallen world, and sometimes things are not as easy as that. It's easy for a celibate to say that and be a willing martyr. But what if you are married, and they plan torture your wife and daughter before they kill them? Or if a terrorist group enters your hospital and starts shooting patients, do we pick up a gun and shoot the sobs to save our patients, or do we sit there and pray while women and children are tortured and murdered? After all the good shepherd stayed with the sheep and defended them from the wolf, he didn't sit and let the wolf kill the sheep while he sat around praying for peace. A movie that shows the Christian dilemma whether to fight in the face of evil is "the Mission"...one priest takes up arms, the other prays and sees his people killed and enslaved. Yup. No more war. “unconditional respect for all of human life in all of our daily activities.”
Ah yes, but we live in a fallen world, and sometimes things are not as easy as that.

It’s easy for a celibate to say that and be a willing martyr.

But what if you are married, and they plan torture your wife and daughter before they kill them? Or if a terrorist group enters your hospital and starts shooting patients, do we pick up a gun and shoot the sobs to save our patients, or do we sit there and pray while women and children are tortured and murdered?

After all the good shepherd stayed with the sheep and defended them from the wolf, he didn’t sit and let the wolf kill the sheep while he sat around praying for peace.

A movie that shows the Christian dilemma whether to fight in the face of evil is “the Mission”…one priest takes up arms, the other prays and sees his people killed and enslaved.

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