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monkspider
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Sloww, of course there are countless examples of American aggression. As far as your main question of an American leader killing American civillians on the scale of Sadaam kiling his, I can think of no comparable examples. This does not really matter. Regardless of whether Sadaam is a bad guy or not, that does not mean that we should launch an aggrefssive war against the Iraqi people. If we were really interested in helping the Iraqi people, there are countless ways to peacefully do so, if we wanted to minimize the tyrannical tendencies of the Hussein regime, there are countless ways to do so peacefully. God never gives us a problem that can only be resolved through violence.
Last edited by monkspider on 06-03-2003 at 11:52
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monkspider
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Aug 2001
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Originally posted by Straybow
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God never gives us a problem that can only be resolved through violence. |
God didn't "give" us a problem, man made it. It is saying, "Kill them all and let God sort them out," except letting somebody else do the killing. Cowardice in the name of God is yet cowardice. |
Of course God didn't literally "give" us a problem, in fact, all of our problems are inevitably and intrinsically linked to falliing short of God's perfection. But on the same coin, despite seperarting ourselves from god most of the time in our actions, God is never seperate from us and always helps us to make this life offer the most spiritual growth possible. So, God will help out those who desire to grow closer to him.
I am honestly not sure what you meant with the "kill em
all" analogy. But in regards to the cowardice comment. What do you mean by cowardice? Being scared of the ghost in your closet? or being too afraid to ask out that girl sitting in front of you? Or do you think that peace is cowardice, that refusing to resolve questions through violence is cowardice, if so then you are not correct. Pacifism, love, brotherhood, if one can attain to these ideals despite the pressures in this world to do otherwise, then that man is the most courageous of all.
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I once believed that some wars truly are unavoidable, and WW II is the one that I always thought of. …there was still a way to defeat [Hitler] through peaceful means. It may seem impossible, but with God nothing is impossible. |
There are so many ignorant follies in that paragraph I sit agape. You managed to get pretty much every misconception about the rise of Nazism into one run-on sentence. Amazing. |
In what way?
God bless.
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It doesn't matter what your name is!
Feb 2000
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Originally posted by SlowwHand
I defy you to show me one, just one, example of a U.S. leader doing to his people, what Hussein has done to his. |
Internment of Japanese during World War II. Slavery from beginnings to 1863, Jim Crow for another century.
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Tell me when, the U.S. has done to another country, what Hussein has done to his own. |
Japan, Aug. 1945. To be fair, however, Hussein doesn't nearly compare. To name one.
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Cite me an example, where the U.S. has ever been the aggressor. |
Mexican-American. Spanish-American.
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