Quote:Calamity said: Let me confirm. In war, you would kill your fellow christian brothers at the request of a non christians order?
Up until Constantine your christians took no place in the army on moral grounds. So it seems your god changed his mind and changed in the teachings of your church?
I'd do whatever my conscience tells me to do; we're all on our own in that respect-
"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Philip 2:12 KJV),
so following the herd and copying what they do won't do us a blind bit of good if they're all going up the spout!
I almost joined the army as a teenager, I sent off for the brochures but changed my mind and dived behind the settee when the local recruiting officer came knocking my door on a follow-up visit because I knew i'd never be able to take orders if i didn't agree with them, or fight in a war that i didn't agree with..
This is my great-uncle Alf (my paternal granmas brother) who was killed in WW1 many years before I was born and has been lying in a grave somewhere in Belgium ever since. (Gosh I can see myself in his strong features, insolent body language and flamboyant dress style!)
He probably thought it was the right thing to go overseas to fight the Germans, (or maybe he just went for some adventure) but I'm not so sure I'd have gone myself in that particular war..
