killing is murder - whether you kill one or a million.
what is proof texted?
Aren't the church leaders referred to a men of God?
Does this apply to the women too...................................
Kyle, you know - I am simple - all the complicated defenses confuse me - I understand the basics - killing people defeats the survival thing. In my world - Love is the Law - The whole of the law ----- and as we go to church we say "Covenant of the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church" - which is simple enough for me to understand and follow - I understand love, peace and those really ideas - the ones that start with you - and don't require an a council meeting or votes or other stuff - just a gut commitment to be a stepping stone in life instead a stumbling block. Crawling back under my rock now.
Love is the teaching of this church.
The quest of truth is its daily task,
And service is its prayer.
To dwell together in peace,
To seek knowledge in freedom,
To serve life in community,
To the end that all souls shall grow in harmony.
This is our covenant,
With each and with all.
Trisha
> A "Man of God"? Aren't all who believe "Men of God"? The commandment you
> are quoting is being proof-texted. The directive was against murder.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Cummings
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 10/1/03 2:33 PM
> Subject: was brother now Polictics
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> The real problem is not even the religions, its the folks wielding
> it. They scare me. I scare them.I am sorry about your pastor, he
> certainly had a right to talk about the war, and I would think a Man of
> God would be against war - I really thought that commandment said - Thou
> shalt not kill. I tend to associate war with killing - but ya know I
> have been known to be wrong ;-)
>
> Trisha
>
>
> > Thank you very much.. Trish, I know that, and it's usually the
> > perceived enemy of the state, not the true enemy. :-( When the
> first
> > Gulf war was going on, my pastor spoke out against it, asnd got
> reamed
> > royally by the church people, I have a hard time to this day
> forgiving
> > some of the comments that I heard from church people...
> >
> > ken barber wrote:
> >
> > >yes, mike is smart and calm and well grounded.
> > >
> > >--- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>No Mike,
> > >>
> > >> You sound like the smart - well grounded guy you
> > >>are!
> > >>Religion and Politics don't mix, and when they do -
> > >>someone ends up =
> > >>dead.
> > >>
> > >> Trisha
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I did not like Bush for his Christian
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>conservatism. Any time a
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>politician uses God in order to get elected, nine
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>times out of ten =
> > >>it's
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>a Machavellian ploy. (Boy., do I sound like a
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>cynic here, or what?) =
> > >>:-(
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>=20
> > >>>BG Greer, PhD wrote:
> > >>>=20
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>Sadly, it seems the Bush foriegn policy, despite
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>Colin Powell's =
> > >>effort is to
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>p*ss the entire world off. N. Korea is much more
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>of a threat than =
> > >>Iraq, but
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>there is little oil in N Korea.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> It is hilarious that he is going to
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>"convince" the UN to help =
> > >>in Iraq.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>And the reason we have been free of terrorism in
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>this country is that =
> > >>the
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>terrorists have not made a concerted effort yet.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The more I hear of Bush the more disgusted
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>I am.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>Bobby
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>I think it's very ironic that Bush is seeking
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>aid from the very body =>
> > >>he
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>>scorned a year ago. He's realising all too well
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>that America can no =
> > >>longer
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>>afford to act on its own and we cannot operate
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>in a vacuum.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >
> > >
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