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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (922008)	2/18/2016 12:58:40 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578161

Did Jesus tell the centurion who believed in him to desert? No, he didn't. Why did he not take that opportunity to let Christians know they should be pacifists? Matthew 8 and Luke 7 only mention Jesus commending the centurion on his faith. Nothing there about telling him to desert his position - you didn't just resign from the Roman Army. And what of Cornelius, a centurion who was converted by Peter at Caesarea? There is no indication Cornelius was told to desert his position either. See Acts 10. I think you've lost your 'Christians must be pacifists' argument. ---------------------------------------------- Now back to Bill Halsey - I pick him as an example to illustrate that your position would be that the entire war effort against Japan and Nazi Germany was an evil enterprise entered into by an evil country - the US - in order to murder Japanese and German children: When the US Enterprise entered Pearl Harbor immediately after the Japanese attack, it's commander, Bill Halsey, publicly vowed to make sure that in the future the Japanese language would be spoken only in hell. I saw this on one of those military history shows last night. Today, a military leader who said such a thing would be fired immediately. We have Broken Clockism now. Now America didn't wipe out the Japanese, didn't try to, but should Halsey have been fired for his genocidal rhetoric? Should we strip Halsey of all the medals he was awarded? Navy Cross Navy Distinguished Service Medal Army Distinguished Service Medal Presidential Unit Citation Mexican Service Medal World War I Victory Medal American Defense Service Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Should we remove his picture from the National Portrait Gallery? Admiral Halsey as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Should we remove his body from Arlington National Cemetery? Should President Obama apologize to the nation of Japan for Halsey's hateful, genocidal remarks at Pearl Harbor? Won't God ( who you think is yourself writ giant, send all Americans to hell, except for you of course, for honoring this evil man