Sweet Willy
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It is easy to call everything an excuse without looking at the actual outcomes and purpose behind such actions. You are taking a world that is very much not black and white and attempting to force it into a black and white viewpoint. You can point to a situation and say that it was not Christian because it broke some vaunted law but without context you are misrepresenting the truth. I do not think that God would take issue that you shot a man if such an action was the only way to stop him from burning a building full of children. There is more to actions than the immediate narrow scope that you are focusing on.
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Right. But lets say that rather than face the man with the gun, I went to the day care where his child was and burned it down while he also burned mine down? Are we on the good Christian path yet?
I do say that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not excused by some twisted and contorted scripture. We targeted unarmed women and children, intentionally. We took HOSTAGES and MURDERED THEM. We said "look, we're going to kill your women and children rather than fight you."
Yes, you are right that we face tough circumstances. But we chose to kill defenseless people to save armed soldiers. Had we kept that battle centered on armies and not intentionally gone after civilians, there may be a difference. It was and is a sin against God's children. They were murdered.