Christian Just War Theory: A Human Absurdity and a Possible Eternal Tragedy
If Jesus, God Incarnate, is not the ultimate norm for moral conduct for a Christian, who or what is? All Christian just warists, regardless of their status or standing in the Church or in the world, believe and proclaim that it is Jesus, who is with them, who tells them individually that it is okay to pull the trigger that discharges the bullet that rips off some other human being’s head. For all Christian just warists, it is Jesus who ultimately says to the Christian, albeit through the ministry of a just warist institutional Church, “Go ahead! Fire! Blow his brains out.” Who else but Jesus would a Christian ultimately consult to discern if he or she could destroy a beloved son or daughter of the Father of all?
Jesus of the Gospels could never be reasonably or sanely interpreted as saying to a disciple, “Go ahead! Fire! Blow his brains out!” So, from whence do Christian leaders and Christians get the idea that Jesus approves of “Blowing some one’s brains out?”
It is one thing to have a mere limited human being, who is a Pope, Bishop or Priest, virtually standing beside or inside a disciple of Christ on the battlefield, or with a Christian in the cockpit of a fighter plane, telling him or her, “Fire! Destroy the enemy.” It is quite another to have Jesus, the Messiah of God and the “Word of God made flesh” standing or sitting beside or inside a Christian, telling him or her, “Fire! Kill them!” The
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