Wow Paul! War is amoral, period. There is no such thing as a righteous war, good war, needed war or honorable war. Mankind has been enslaved to serve the war machine since the dawn of time and it has always been the uneducated poor who are sent off to die by the ruling elite. The ideology of war is an ideology of exploitation that calls for using force to determine an outcome. "God" has been the fulcrum point of many many wars and like I said before if this god is real it thrives on mans destruction and misery. That is why I KNOW THERE IS NO GOD. Humankind and its actions unto itself is proof positive that god does not exist. To actually think that a soldier is protecting the innocent during war is quite naive. Do a little digging into the Iraq war, see how many Iraqi's have been sluaghtered by the U.S. and the U.K., wholesale and sytematically. How many innocent people are in the 1 million lives destroyed by the invasion of Iraq? The suicide rate of U.S. military combat soldiers of Iraq and Afghanistan is at a record high since Vietnam. If that is how your god forgives a soldier for doing his "duty" I want nothing to do with it.Paul Wolfe wrote:
But if there were no God, would the flame of life hard wire us with fundamental morals? I believe these morals exist within us because we were created by God. One does not have to believe in God for Him to be real, He is real anyway, whether people choose to believe in Him or not.
As for going off to war, belief in God cannot exist without belief in Satan. God tells us Lucifer was cast out of Heaven and creates havoc in this world specifically to cast doubt on the existence of God. So, through Satan (Lucifer), wars take place and someone has to act as a soldier to protect the innocent. It is a sacrifice the soldier makes for the good of others. God knows the soldier is making a sacrifice for the good of the innocent, so if the soldiers asks forgiveness for killing - as justified as that killing may be - God will forgive him for the sin of killing another human being.
That is what I believe to be true.
There is a great quote I read: "Mankind must put an end to war, before war puts an end to mankind." JFK (Killed for just such thinking.)