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Defending our neighbor: can we start a war to protect others?(Civil Reactions)

Publication: Christianity Today
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04
Format: Online - approximately 780 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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IN MY LAST COLUMN ("Loving Military Enemies," September, p. 84), I argued that we cannot suspend the moral requirement to love our neighbors in wartime. Even the enemy soldiers whom the Christian must reluctantly kill are precious in God's sight. The column provoked such an interesting range...

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...of e-mails (pro and con) that I want to further pursue the subject of war in Christian thought.

In an essay entitled "War and Massacre," philosopher Thomas Nagel asks us to envision a conversation between two soldiers on the battlefield. Each seeks to explain to the other why he must be killed. This scenario reminds us that we must always justify so serious a moral act as killing. We...

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