PoliticalChic
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... will always be there for this simple reason: We are put on this earth to fight evil.
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Matthew, Chapter 26
1.In chapter 13 of Genesis Abraham (Abram) goes to war to save his nephew, Lot. He joins with the King of Sodom as an ally even though the city of Sodom was evil.
A man of peace.....joins forces with the evil kingdom of Sodom????
Prager explains it thus:
āAbramās willingness to join forces with the king of Sodom, a city which the Bible has already described as evil (Genesis 13:13), is another example of biblical moral wisdom. In waging war against evil, we cannot always choose whom we would most like as our allies. Sometimes we are morally bound to fight alongside bad people in order to defeat worse people.
2. There are those who reject this assertion, arguing that āthe lesser of two evils is still evil.ā But no one denies that the lesser evil is evil. The biblical and moral argument is that between a greater and a lesser evil, good is achieved by first defeating the greater evil for the obvious reason that less evil is always better than more evil.
After Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill, one of the staunchest anti-Communists, joined forces with the Communist Soviet Union and its murderous dictator, Josef Stalin, in order to defeat Hitler and Nazism. As Churchill put it to the British Parliament: āIf Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.ā
13.8 Abram said to Lot, āLet there be no strife between you and me, between my herdsmen and yours, for we are kinsmen.
3. Yet, Abram was a man of peace.
ā¦it should be noted that loving peace and pursuing peaceātwo biblical idealsāhave little in common with pacifism. Pacifism, the belief that killing is never moral, decreases peace in the worldāfor the obvious reason that often the only way to stop the murder of innocent people is to kill the murderer(s).
Peace is beautifulābut not at the expense of justice or goodness. In formulating a plan of action, the paramount question individuals and governments must ask is not āWill it lead to peace?ā but āWill it lead to good or evil?ā If one does not resist evil, temporary āpeaceā is easily obtained. But such peace is mere delusion; all it does is ensure more violence.
4. Hatred of pacifism should not be read as endorsement of all warfare.
In 1927, the French writer Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs, (The treason of the intellectuals), in which he differentiates between the āpacifismā of intellectuals, a āvulgar pacifism,ā which ādoes nothing but denounce the man who kills, and sneers at the prejudices of patriotism.ā He describes āmystic pacifismā as solely animated by a blind hatred of war and refuses to inquire whether a war is just or not, whether those fighting are attackers or defenders. It is impossible to exaggerate the consequences of this behavior, as it obliterates the concept of justice in those smitten with it.
Phyllis Chesler
Pacifism as a doctrine is a refutation of the reason we are put on earth: to fight evil.
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. [7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Matthew, Chapter 26
1.In chapter 13 of Genesis Abraham (Abram) goes to war to save his nephew, Lot. He joins with the King of Sodom as an ally even though the city of Sodom was evil.
A man of peace.....joins forces with the evil kingdom of Sodom????
Prager explains it thus:
āAbramās willingness to join forces with the king of Sodom, a city which the Bible has already described as evil (Genesis 13:13), is another example of biblical moral wisdom. In waging war against evil, we cannot always choose whom we would most like as our allies. Sometimes we are morally bound to fight alongside bad people in order to defeat worse people.
2. There are those who reject this assertion, arguing that āthe lesser of two evils is still evil.ā But no one denies that the lesser evil is evil. The biblical and moral argument is that between a greater and a lesser evil, good is achieved by first defeating the greater evil for the obvious reason that less evil is always better than more evil.
After Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill, one of the staunchest anti-Communists, joined forces with the Communist Soviet Union and its murderous dictator, Josef Stalin, in order to defeat Hitler and Nazism. As Churchill put it to the British Parliament: āIf Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.ā
13.8 Abram said to Lot, āLet there be no strife between you and me, between my herdsmen and yours, for we are kinsmen.
3. Yet, Abram was a man of peace.
ā¦it should be noted that loving peace and pursuing peaceātwo biblical idealsāhave little in common with pacifism. Pacifism, the belief that killing is never moral, decreases peace in the worldāfor the obvious reason that often the only way to stop the murder of innocent people is to kill the murderer(s).
Peace is beautifulābut not at the expense of justice or goodness. In formulating a plan of action, the paramount question individuals and governments must ask is not āWill it lead to peace?ā but āWill it lead to good or evil?ā If one does not resist evil, temporary āpeaceā is easily obtained. But such peace is mere delusion; all it does is ensure more violence.
4. Hatred of pacifism should not be read as endorsement of all warfare.
In 1927, the French writer Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs, (The treason of the intellectuals), in which he differentiates between the āpacifismā of intellectuals, a āvulgar pacifism,ā which ādoes nothing but denounce the man who kills, and sneers at the prejudices of patriotism.ā He describes āmystic pacifismā as solely animated by a blind hatred of war and refuses to inquire whether a war is just or not, whether those fighting are attackers or defenders. It is impossible to exaggerate the consequences of this behavior, as it obliterates the concept of justice in those smitten with it.
Phyllis Chesler
Pacifism as a doctrine is a refutation of the reason we are put on earth: to fight evil.