The Libertarian Snakebite Kit - Day

9:06PM - Murders for Jesus

It states in the article State Sanctified Murder:

Christians who volunteer for the military and their pastors who encourage them are basically saying that killing someone you don’t know and may never have seen, in his own territory, is not murder (and therefore is not prohibited by the sixth commandment) if the U.S. government says that he should be killed.

State sanctified murder.

As a Bible-believing Christian, I reject this ghastly statolatry, and for two reasons:

* "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).
* "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in theology or even a Bible-college education to see that killing someone for the state in an aggressive, unconstitutional, non-defensive, foreign war is immoral. Killing someone for the state can be murder for the simple reason that the state can sanctify nothing. It is the state itself that needs sanctification. The state is the greatest killing machine in history. The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history precisely because of state aggression.



Even though I also feel this is the case, demagogues on the right assert that God (and Jesus Christ) allow and in fact encourage such perversions.