Before we get too far down the road of describing what a “just war” may or may not be, I feel it is important to explore the why and how of what was meant to be. The reason for this is simply because critics of the Bible and proponents of…
Why do we have wars? I believe most of us are familiar with the Epistle of James: 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and…
Catholics and Protestants alike sometimes refer to the “just war”. Some have tried to justify the war in Iraq by invoking this clause, even. The Just War theory is an official teaching by the Catholic Church, but it has proponents amongst secular humanists as well. According to Wikipedia’s “Just War”…