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Where Are We Headed?

After watching the debate on Monday night, I can’t help but wonder where we as a nation are headed. On stage we had 4 pro-war candidates and 1 peace candidate. If you listen to all of the candidates speak about our military and about Iran, save Paul, you can hear the war drums blaring in the background as they without hesitation say that we need to spend more money on our military and we need to intervene with Iran. When Ron Paul mentioned that maybe we should apply the Golden Rule to our foreign policy, the crowd overwhelmingly began to boo.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:1

Why would that be such a bad idea?

I work with a lady that is, I guess the best way to say it is very involved with her church. Yet she endorses and advocates war after war in the middle east. How can being Christian and having such a pro-war attitude go hand-in-hand? Casualties cannot be discriminated during war. Countless innocent women and children are killed during war, and when a war is unjust, I just don’t see how someone can be such an advocate of the war and at the same time pretend to be such a Christian person.

We’ve become a nation that applauds and praises murder, execution, crippling sanctions, and war, all the while ignoring the costs both in dollars and human lives. That’s sad.