Pope Peculiar, showing up to be even worse than his predecessor, cherry picks the “Gospel” to claim that God doesn't listen to anyone who wages war.

The "pre-emptive" strike on Iran occurred only after Iran's 47 year ongoing war via its support for terror all over the world, by a religion that doesn't work on Christian morals, or any morals at all. It should have happened much earlier.

There are all sorts of good things in the Bible. ‘Loving your enemy’, and ‘turning the other cheek’ are not the good sorts; particularly when it comes to a religion determined to kill and subjugate as many Christians, and other non-Muslims to get what it wants: world domination.

Bible-bashing and naive academics won't save the West. That's a job for hard men with a normal sense of self-preservation.

The “dignity of life” is an excuse used here to say no to war. Tell that to Muslims, who love death.

Then there's the nonsense of sitting on our hands, and not reacting to “a scary story about what might happen”. How long has Yuri Koszarycz had his head in the sand!

Using Christianity at all as an excuse to do nothing is pointless. It is on the way out, along with the West itself. King Charles 111 would rather talk about Ramadan than give the traditional Easter Message. He even tried to have his title Defender Of The Faith (the Church of England) changed to Defender of (all) Faiths. Wiser heads than his put a stop to that nonsense. And the next plonker to the throne, is a personality-free nothing even more woke and useless than his daddy.

If you believe in God, thank him for Donald Trump and the hard young men who surround him. They are the West's only hope.

If "... Donald Trump and the hard young men who surround him ..." are the answer, the whole world is well and truly screwed.

FYI, the Arabic word most commonly associated with 'just war' is 'jihad'.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

"Every citizen and government is flat-out obliged to avoid it."
The Islamic Republic is obliged to follow the Catholic Churches dictates?
I'm obliged to follow the Catholic churches dictates too?

Well don't worry, I'm pretty sure they checked all the boxes off first, unlike America and Israel.

Aries 54,

The idea is to read the article and supply YOUR opinion on it, not to make half-witted comments on the opinions of other posters who, unlike you, do have the intelligence and the willingness to do that.

Hi ttbn
I have read the article and for the most part agree with it so see no need to comment further.

However, your comment about those believing in God caught my eye. As a non-believer in some omnipresent invisible being who lives in the sky, I have never ever believed in the concept of 'justifiable violence' of any description. So I guess our views on that topic will never align. If those who do believe in god see "... Donald Trump and the hard young men who surround him ..." as answers to anything. I'm deeply concerned.

Most of what the author wrote has no relevance to human life in the "21st century"
These 3 references describe the necessary conditions for human life in the "21st century".
http://www.nottwoispeace.org/excerpt-723
http://www.dabase.org/12laws.htm
http://www.dabase.org/p4formula.htm
Unfortunately our benighted leaders are all charging in the opposite direction!