I see that this has turned into a bit of a screaming match about the legitimacy of our current foreign conflicts, but I have yet to read anyone refute my original point.
Do these wars protect Americans' rights?
These days I see a lot of talk in the news media about military action being vital to personal freedoms. The phrase typically used is some variation of The military fights to defend our freedom and is coupled with some kind of sentimental talk about supporting the troops and their mission. I...
You support the military, and I don't. Glad we got that out of the way. -- I do have family in the military. I don't support their choice.
I agree that they have made a choice, but that choice was to join the military. In joining the military this person has become an active, willing...
I assure you it never said 'Christian', but I put 'All Religions' there because I feel like I've been influenced by them all, but I'm an absurdist at heart.
I have recently started learning Esperanto, and I read on wikipedia (of course) that some Baha'i feel that it could be used as a worldwide language. What are your thoughts on this matter?
That may be true, but that still doesn't provide a reason for me to support that person for his/her decision to join the military as a means to an end. By that logic pirates, bandits, and 'terrorist' forces are to be understood as merely reacting to their socio-economic conditions and also...
Even with the economic issue, there are other choices. (It's an entirely different discussion if we go into how the government could divert funds from the military to civilian jobs if the war-cycle was broken)
I am sadly aware of that fact. I grew up in the Pentecostal church and had...
When has war actually ended in peace? The end of every war is the beginning of the next. What is being stopped when war is an endless cycle?
Does war not harm multitudes of people?
How does this make right what they have done?
The standards that society has set for itself (at least in the US)...
I will put an exception right at the top of this post. If you're drafted, most of what I say here does not apply.
Why support a volunteer soldier?
I've been faced with this question quite a bit coming to age in the Bush years. The conclusion that I've finally landed on is, there is no...
The bible being the word of G-d represents bare human nature and therefore is a guide to the way we are built. On that note, this woman and the observer were both disregarding their nature. To say that human nature has been perverted and polluted by satan gives him a bit too much credit.
I don't believe Jesus ever had a good thing to say about rich people.
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." - Mark 10:25 (Jerusalem Bible)