Reply #13: Anti-war Jesus

[Sforza]

>>>Are you trying to say Jesus is against the war in Iraq ??<<<

Now I wouldn't go so far as to say that. But I do think Jesus is credited with the dippy and peacenik aphorism, "Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword." I have no idea what he meant by that or how it could possibly be applied to the current administration.

I've heard it said by many a goofball Christian--that Jesus never specifically condemned war. As if that somehow justifies it. But I'm pretty sure it is included under "Thou shall not kill". I don't really see why war, which is government sponsored killing on a mass scale, should somehow be outside the jurisdiction of "Thou shall not kill". No, I don't really see how that could be. But I do think that when Jesus said "love your enemy", he was thinking about something other than murdering him. But then again, the Iraqis are not even our enemies. We are merely sacrificing a hundred thousand of them to bring democracy to their children. Yep, this next generation of liberated Iraqis will know freedom and democracy. But they won't know their parents, cause they'll be, you know, dead. So thank you George Bush for spreading democracy and thank you for having the courage to play God and sacrifice countless thousands of innocent women and children to bring them poor muslims God's own preferred form of government: semi-democratic capitalism.

On a different topic, which level in hell do you suppose Bush will be consigned to?