in mind that none of you are pacifists, and are comfortable with the state killing people in "just" wars and rioters who happen to be your political adversaries?
Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10707279/Mom-26-stepdad-39-arrested-extreme-child-sex-abuse-torture.html
Terrific post for Holy Week.
Enlightened Governments ought not be in the killing business. Period.
As to whether I agree with the Department of Defense’s decision, I defer to their factual findings.
I gather we do not have access to the classified information relied upon by the fact finders.
You have no moral standing in this debate.
Do you think Jesus would stand with your war-with-Russia-cheerleading and do you also believe Jesus would be down with baby-killing? Just curious.
I do believe in a nation's right to defend its sovereignty against invasion.
Regarding abortion, I believe that a woman is better positioned to make that decision versus a state legislature, notwithstanding my strong belief to carry a baby to term (unless left threatening to the mother).
Yet you urge on war here all the time. You are not being honest.
You also wished death upon the unvaccinated, even after you knew that in some places, the vaccinated were spreading the virus at greater rates than the unvaccinated.
You also refuse to exercise what you know to be right in the case of abortion because it clashes with your political beliefs, and your political beliefs trump your religious beliefs.
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You have also stated something about picking a fight with Putin. You seem to be contradicting yourself on my levels here but it's just the way you think. How is getting us involved in the Ukraine against Russia defending our sovereignty?
Added your link for picking a fight with Putin. Doesn't sound like someone who is against war, but thats just me.
Link: https://forum.uhnd.com/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=2&msgid=66030
Ukraine is our friend. They have done more in 8 weeks to fight for democracy than the overwhelming number of Americans will do in their entire life. We cannot let Putin have his way. We have to have Ukraine's back, no matter the cost.
I am well aware that seasoned and vastly experienced US experts and professionals have war gamed every option and scenario a multitude of times, concluding that US military engagement is too big a risk to trigger escalation leading to nuclear war. I am also well aware that US/NATO military involvement is exactly what Putin will use to justify his aggression.
On the flipside, nuclear war is a terrible option for Putin and Russia. Also, it appears that the Russian dissidents have lost momentum, whereby the Russian people are largely soaking up their version of Fox News propaganda.
We cannot let Putin extort the West, and carve off what he decides to eat, without consequence. Sanctions are effective ... to a point, but require a long game -- years. My fear is that Ukraine will be inclined to cut a deal with Putin in order to end the bloodshed and suffering.
Strength -- overpowering strength -- is what bullies understand. In the name of responding to the war crimes perpetrated by Russian, NATO/US military power could crush Russian forces in their tracks. Send the Russian troops crawling home, without food or weapons. That is the message to be delivered.
the kids. The blood of those shit wars is on yr hands. Ooorah my ass!
this event.
My prayers are with all Ukrainians and hope they will only know peace once the invasion by Russia is turned away. Godspeed, Volodymyr Zelenskyy!
is "they" ? He's the fucking president, act like it, or get out of the way. He's a laughing stock to the world.
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there don’t seem to be so interested [in NATO]". No, wait, this one
- when he tried to coerce Ukraine and other countries into providing damaging narratives of a presidential candidate as well as creating misinformation relating to Russian interference in United States elections and then enlisted surrogates ... to pressure Ukraine and other foreign governments to cooperate in supporting false information concerning American politics and if not, he'd block payment of a congressionally mandated $400 million military aid package to Ukriane.
or this one when he said - "This is genius. Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine – of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
I'm sure there are many more gaffes - maybe you can provide a few more.
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to put their lives on the line for a foreign country. Just admit that is who are you rather than get on a soapbox and rattle off 5 paragraphs of crap. We all know who you are, you just need to admit it.
You don’t see how strongly you are influenced by evil.
These men should not be killed, they should be contained for life in hopes that they will seek redemption. But your tongue in cheek smug reference to those calling for condemnation of an innocent - our savior, Christ the Lord, is an intentional act of evil.
Spare us the rest of your hateful nonsense.
Christ died for all of us, even the worst and most despicable among us -- who in America -- also enjoy a constitutional right to counsel to effectively and vigorously represent them.
Inspired by evil.
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And by "interesting" of course I mean "ridiculous."
He did not "compare" them to Christ. Unless I am very wrong, Conor does not find those cretins Christ-like.
…..Christ our Lord is without sin while these fiends are immersed in evil. But the thing I correctly call conor out for here is likening the crowd calling for the criminal Barrabus to go free rather than the innocent Jesus to those(MAS here) who are calling for justice against these fiends.
There is no comparison. MAS’s position is understandable though I disagree.
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Sounds like that is the “business of killing” and I’m not even going to touch your support of abortion. Like every good Christian should be.
God stands with Ukraine in their defense against an evil autocrat . He also stands with the condemned man strapped to a gurney.
You seemingly lack the wherewithal to distinguish between a government engaged in a hostile war vs a government engaged in executing a person to death.
Think Like a Champion Today!
punishment. You appear to have a very fucked up moral compass: Send the boys to war, kill the babies, save the criminals. Have great Easter, hypocrite
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I grew up in the Catholic church and have spent time around "Christians" like you. The ones who hide behind the bible are usually the biggest frauds. They hide more skeletons in their closet than anyone. I would think you fall into that category. You tweak the "word of God" to fit your narrative.
As far as the people strapped to a gurney, was God standing with their victims? They are strapped to a gurney for a good reason. I'm an eye for an eye type of person. People like you who champion being soft on crime is the reason the country is seeing huge crime spikes. But I can see the commercials now "Better Call Conor".
I feel for the people of the Ukraine. It's a screwed up situation but one we need to stay out of and no American should lose their life in that country.
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And just wars are completely different from this.
In this particular case, it seems like they would be getting off easy with the death penalty. These 2 would suffer mercilessly in prison.
Any war involves the killing of innocents. It has always occurred and will always occur. The only folks who have room to argue against the death penalty on moral grounds are pacifists. The folks who rationalize why governments should be able to kill people in other nations when they themselves claim the right to label it "just," do not have any moral or intellectual consistency on the issue. They're usually following church dogma, and it is dogma that is not consistent with the Bible. Not only does the Torah make it clear that the death penalty is just in cases that are of appropriate severity, but Jesus also advocates the death penalty: "He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death." Jesus also rebukes Peter for trying to kill Malchus, but only slicing his ear, saying: "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword." Jesus also states that anyone who would lead a child into sin may as well tie a millstone to his neck and jump into the sea rather than face God's retribution. That doesn't sound nonviolent and it certainly doesn't sound like Jesus thinks death is an unjust or inappropriate sentence, given the transgression. Finally, the Crucifixion would lose most meaning if Jesus opposed the death penalty. This is scholar Michael Pakaluk's take: "If no crime deserves the death penalty, then it is hard to see why it was fitting that Christ be put to death for our sins…."
they deserve.
There is something evil with these people to do that to a child. They need to executed instead of being allowed to live, even in a cell. Being clothed, fed and will probably have entertainment (books and TV), all of our dime. Should not happen.
even if they get the death sentence, it will be 20 years before they are ever executed.
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