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I know that st blogs has a lot of self righteous pacifists who have never shot a gun or been threatened with death or been in a war...

The link is to one that tell of humanitarian missions by the US Armed forces...(Like the 600 Marines who just dug out bodies in Leyte...)

My answer to intellectual pacifists is that it is indeed right to turn the other cheek, but in the parable of the good shepherd, the GOOD shepherd risks his life to save the sheep from the wolves.

And, as one Marine put it: There are sheep, there are wolves, and there are shepherds, and I'm the shepherd...

I know a lot of shephers...not only those in the military. There are police, firemen, EMT's docs and nurse, and many of our first responders are shepherds too...I know nurses and docs who were hurt when their helicopter crashed...police who were shot...firemen who died responding to car accidents...doctors who gave CPR to patients with active TB...or caught polio from their patients...Army reseverve/national Guard personnel who died in training accidents, or who left family behind for crises from the Cuban missle crisis to Iraq to Afghanistan to Katrina to the Tsunami...

They too are sheperds.

And there are a lot of predators out there, and I thank God every night that there are people risking their lives for others.

As for Iraq: before you wail about the evils we have done, remember there are over 300 mass graves in Iraq--and that doesn't include the million Iranians killed in a war started by Sadam.
Have you seen THESE reported in your papers? You should have read about them in the 1980's and 1990's...but probably didn't. WHY NOT? Don't you read all the human rights webpages? Or do you pick and chose, so you only read the reports about the human rights abuse by America so you can use them to bash the US, while ignoring the much more serious massacres elsewhere?

Christians care for everyone; people who claim they are liberal only care about politically correct poor people..

I'm older than most bloggers. My husband is a World War II vet....so let me say this: Do you lament Hiroshima (40,000 killed) but ignore Manila (100 000 civilians killed for revenge by departing Japanese soldiers) the millions of Chinese tortured and killed during the Japanese occupation, and ignoring the alternat.\ive (1 million US troops dead in the invasion and 7 million or more Japanese civilians killed or committing suicide...remember in Saipan, thousands of civilians committed suicide).

War is hell...

And a true pacifist is not what I see in the anti war (bush hating) blogs.

You want a pacifist? Try Archbishop Romero. He treated all with charity.

Try reading about LeChambon, the village who under the guidance of a pacifistic Christian pastor hid a couple hundred Jews...
The Nazi's came in and held a meeting. At the end, the speaker said: Long live Hitler...no one said anything. Then a teenager stood up and said: Long Live Jesus Christ, and everyone echoed back :Long live Jesus.
Ironically, LeChambon had many German soldiers recuperating in their hotels...and they treated these soldiers well too...
So when these German soldiers started suspecting the Jews, the charity of the villagers had already changed their hearts, so they didn't bother to report their suspicions...


That's pacifism, it takes guts. It is not self righteous. It loves all sides, but is not a patsie.
It prays for conversion, and it might even require that one die without defending oneself.

But you know, when I was in Africa, one pacifistic British mission was attacked...and God rest their souls.

We remembered what happened in the Congo in the early 1960's, so our nuns took Birth control pills, and we decided not to buy guns: we had no families, we had the right to be pacifists.

But this group was from a pacifist church...and the ministers, unlike other missionaries, didn't bother to send their wives or children away because, after all, all the Africans "loved" them....well, I say if they wanted to risk their lives, either because they naively disbelieved in evil, or because they had a martyr complex (or maybe, like us, because they had a job to do) then fine.

But they knew that there had been raids on nearby missions, so why the hell didn't they send out their wives, or at least their 13 year old daughter.

Dr. Sanity has a post on denial of the reality of evil HERE...

This psychological defense mechanism protects us temporarily from:

-Knowledge (things we don’t want to know)
-Insight or awareness that threatens our self-esteem; or our mental or physical health; or our security (things we don't want to think about)
-Unacceptable feelings (things we don’t want to feel)

The last six months I was in Africa, 36 of my friends or acquaintences were killed. None were carrying guns.
That's when I decided that maybe my pacifistic friends were wrong, and that there was a time and place for self defense and just wars.

You see, I didn't mind if I were shot, but I couldn't see letting others be killed so I could feel superior and holy...