How tragic that we humans see each other as the enemy. Think how many wars have been fought between people who, in peace-time, could very well have been the best of friends. And think how many people live and work happily together all their lives who then ferociously turn on each other in a time [...]
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Is killing someone always wrong? If I went completely berserk, for instance, and threatened your life with an axe, should you be blamed if you killed me in self-defence? And if an unwanted pregnancy puts a young mother’s life at stake, would it not justify aborting her baby? Or what if “pulling the plug” could put [...]
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War, it seems, is a just reason for killing people, but is it acceptable for Christians to kill people in war? The answer according to Augustine in 430 A.D. is yes. In his famous book, “The City of God,” he wrote that Christians can go to war and kill so long as the cause is [...]
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Should Christians be going to war, to fight and kill? Yes, some Christians say, it’s our civic duty and right to defend family and nation against evil, and what greater sacrifice can one make than giving one’s life for one’s friends? If someone broke into your home with murderous intentions, would you not have the [...]
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“Let us pray,” the minister mumbled into the microphone. Here we go, I thought, another tired old prayer on Remembrance Day. But this prayer was different. “Great Father of us all,” he began, his voice rising, “We, your suffering children, come to you in our embarrassment to say how sorry we are for all the [...]
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