Is it ever ok to practice armed rebellion against an evil government? Does it fall under the same requirements as the Just War doctrine?
Is it ever ok to practice armed rebellion against an evil government...
Alexander Price
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Tyler Peterson
Just war is a necessity for any armed conflict to be initiated.
Also there is the informal idea that the voice of the people is the voice of God. That's an argumentum ad populum, but politics is not based on the rules of logic, it is based on the rules of people.
Colton Thomas
as a last resort>>663434
Nolan Jackson
Yes and yes.
Mason Butler
Yes, read Maccabees.
Chase Powell
Christianity is against the morality that says "the ends justify the means" , this morality is demonic as it places temporal ends above inherent morality, (i.e we will kill some innocents for the greater good, so that the collective benefits) It's actually very hard/impossible to conduct a war that does not embrace this morality.
The war as such will always be immoral because of this fact, but that doesn't mean your actions have to be. You could be a soldier who refuses to take certain orders, orders that would involve collateral damage.
Oliver Russell
This is also why many of the wars in the OT don't actually use the "ends justify the means" argument, even if the ends create a more stable state, instead they paint all enemy combatants and all their children and wives as equivalent to demons and inhuman. So when hebrews are told to massacre thousands of people including women and children its because they are so morally empty the action itself is not deemed to be WRONG.
Hudson Campbell
You mean God condemned the Canaanites as despicable. The Hebrews didn't make it up.
Charles Baker
Maybe. Maybe not.
I have a hard time imagining an entire population of inhumans.
Hard to trust a hebrew. Given their track record.
Caleb Thompson
Yes and see
Samuel Thompson
It never says they were inhuman, but that their cultural practices were despicable.
Nathaniel Stewart
If the government fails in its Christian duties it is justified to wage total war against it.
Logan Barnes
yes, see the cristeros in Mexico.
Xavier Hughes
This
Grayson Parker
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Grayson Rodriguez
If you're just looking for an excuse to shoot cops, I suggest you stop now.
Logan Anderson
Way to jump to conclusions..
Kevin Rivera
i was onboard until he started preaching about predestination and then he lost me.
Jack Ortiz
user if you hear about how the japs were stabbing babies with knives do you think a war against them would be justified or unjustified?
Joshua Thomas
Well, take what you can use. He's a baptist-calvinist. He is good on a lot of issues. And the right people hate him.
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Liam Martin
It is, but you don't get to decide which government or form of government that be. The Church will decide.
Cooper Williams
No, Romans 13.
Thomas White
Don't punish all for majority of a few. Don't kill their kids lest you become like them
Blake Clark
Yes.
Juan Nguyen
You mean the state-church.
Asher Morales
Whooooooot