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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (1602)	11/26/2004 4:54:15 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1968

The reason for the action is not "God commands it", or "we must smite the infidel". The reason is they where ordered by their superiors. Many of them agree with the action but the reason for this agreement has to do with things like a desire to improve Iraq, to "get the job done", to attack the people committing terrorist acts ect. None of these are theological reasons. If that amounts to "doing something in the name of God", that term becomes rather meaningless. Your basically saying any religious person who thinks God is approving of your actions is doing something in the name of God without drawing any distinctions about what those actions are or what the motivation for them is. The actions and motivations of the terrorists are very different than the actions and motivations of the American army, and this is not just because of different religions and different capabilities. There is a rather fundamental distinction between killing because God tells you to "smite the infidel", and killing for practical reasons, esp. for a good cause, whether or not you are religious. Believing ( your )G-D approves of your actions justifies your actions for those who believe they are on earth to serve ( their ) G-D. All actions therefore are in the name of ( their ) G-D,either consciously or subconsciously. Believing that God approves of your actions doesn't mean the specific motivation of the action is to serve or please God. Religious people take many actions that are not demanded of them by their church or their religious beliefs. If they decide to have pizza rather then chicken for dinner the decision is not a religiously motivated one. Tim