Why do the protestant and Catholic Church represent their countries more than their brethren?
In WW2 the churches of european countries represented their own countries and fought against countries of their own faith.
Catholic and protestant pilots dropped bombs over civilian British and German cities. Mowed each other down in the battlefield.
Doesn’t that sound screwed up that each side of professed faiths were killing each other in war just because by birth they were of different nations?
Would Jesus authorized his disciples to kill their own because of the nation of their origin?
Adulteresses, do YOU not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
Because they are the adulteresses, spiritually speaking. Their flocks are not going to give them the glory they seek. Satan is their God and they are serving him and what is his.
EDIT Gwilliam America is a Democracy. Their is nothing theocratic about any of the nations on this earth. Look up theocratic and see what it means. The government of God is, in structure and function, a pure theocracy (from Gr. the‧os′, god, and kra′tos, a rule), a rule by God.
To be a pure theocracy, of course, the government could not be ordained by any human legislator, such as the man Moses, but must be ordained and established by God. The Scriptural record shows this was the case.
The governments and kingdoms of the world belong to Satan not Jehovah. They are not theocratic.
You might also want to look up 1 John 5:19. It will tell you exactly who the world and its governments belong to.
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September 25 2009 09:03 pm | Protestant
zoltar on 26 Sep 2009 at 2:20 am #
It only proves that religion had nothing to do with that war.
I mean with why the war was fought.
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Gwillam on 26 Sep 2009 at 2:56 am #
Religion is political. It’s about power. America is a theocracy.
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Smiling JW™ on 26 Sep 2009 at 3:42 am #
Jehovah’s Witnesses refuses to fight in human conflicts. They were forcefully imprisoned on both sides of the war in Europe because of their neutral stance.
By joining in the war we would be killing our own brothers and sisters of our faith.
We obey God as ruler rathen men men (Acts 5:29) true Christians have no business to serve in the warfare of nations. We cannot serve God and a national flag since a Christian cannot slave for two masters.
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answer4you on 26 Sep 2009 at 3:58 am #
This is totally, an incorrect assessment. Here you are mixing military and religion. So many people want to talk about separation of Church and State, yet they continue to drag religion into matters which have nothing to do with faith.
Soldiers signed up to defend their country, from both foreign and domestic threats. They take their bombing orders not from their Church, but from their Commander in Chief. When they press the button to drop the bombs, they are doing so because they have been given direct orders… not because "GOD says I need to do this"….
Your arguments are ridiculous….
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'maters Granny on 26 Sep 2009 at 4:12 am #
Adulteresses, do YOU not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
Because they are the adulteresses, spiritually speaking. Their flocks are not going to give them the glory they seek. Satan is their God and they are serving him and what is his.
EDIT Gwilliam America is a Democracy. Their is nothing theocratic about any of the nations on this earth. Look up theocratic and see what it means. The government of God is, in structure and function, a pure theocracy (from Gr. the‧os′, god, and kra′tos, a rule), a rule by God.
To be a pure theocracy, of course, the government could not be ordained by any human legislator, such as the man Moses, but must be ordained and established by God. The Scriptural record shows this was the case.
The governments and kingdoms of the world belong to Satan not Jehovah. They are not theocratic.
You might also want to look up 1 John 5:19. It will tell you exactly who the world and its governments belong to.
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Daver on 26 Sep 2009 at 4:20 am #
<<Why do the protestant and Catholic Church represent their countries more than their brethren?>>
Christians see themselves as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, first and foremost.
Having said that, the fact is, these citizens of The Kingdom are spread all across the globe in their respective earthly kingdoms.
As individuals with a sort-of duel citizenship, Christians live life abiding to the Law of God as well as morally upstanding rules of law from the earthly kingdom.
<<In WW2 the churches of european countries represented their own countries and fought against countries of their own faith.>>
No.
World War II was a political conflict – governments against governments, not Churches against Churches.
Christians will fight to defend their earthly kingdom, especially from unprovoked attack. As it just so happens, political conflicts will end up pitching the Christians of one nation against Christians from another.
That’s just one of many sad facts of war.
<<Catholic and protestant pilots dropped bombs over civilian British and German cities.Mowed each other down in the battlefield.>>
There were alot more European nations going at it than merely Germany and Great Britain.
<<Doesn’t that sound screwed up that each side of professed faiths were killing each other in war just because by birth they were of different nations?>>
It IS screwed up, but I think you’re making the mistake of seeing World War II as some sort of Christian "civil war".
World War II in Europe was a civil war – but it was not a civil war of Christianity. It was a civil war of Western Civilization as a whole, with political, economic ramification in question, not so much religious.
You can make an argument that Christians got ‘caught in the middle’ of it all.
<<Would Jesus authorized his disciples to kill their own because of the nation of their origin?>>
The other thing is, you’re passing judgement one hundreds of millions of soldiers. Generalizations are always wrong. There were soldiers who fought with righteous intent, and there were soldiers who fought with great malice.
A tremendous evil was lose in the world at the time. The ONLY way to bring it down was to take it on in a no holds barred, knock down, winner take all, massive worldwide brawl.
There is such a thing as Just War.
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