Here’s a better message for Catholics in the army:
You swore an oath to defend the US and its constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. A domestic enemy is actively soiling the office of the president, and rather than defend us against him, you continue to follow his orders. Stop doing what’s easy, and start doing what’s right.
Those people would be mad if they could read… but one of the reasons they join is because reading wasn’t so great
I mean, with everybody else dropping the ball so hard it’s not like the military or a particular subgroup thereof is different here from the background noise of compliance. If anything the military is the last organization you should expect to get involved in a domestic political conflict. And besides, you don’t get into the US military by having a strong moral compass.
exactly. you mostly end up in the military by being poor, and fuck those guys amirite?
“I did it for a college degree” isn’t a good reason to bomb people on the other side of the world, so my point still stands.
That’s been doctrine since 2018.
American Catholics should also be prohibited by doctrine from voting for political candidates who support the death penalty. The death penalty is carried out on behalf of the government. You know, “of the people.”
Voting for a death penalty candidate is a form of participating in the executions that come from that vote. If the executioner refuses to do their job, the government will find someone else.
Compare that with abortion, it’s only allowing others to get abortions. If an expectant woman refuses to get an abortion, that’s the end of that. It’s just her choice.
Hilarious that the church thinks it can step in and dictate which killings their god endorses
I mean thats kind of how that church works.
With a commandment stating “though shalt not kill” you’d think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter
The problem is that the Commandments in the Bible are so absolute that they can be reductio ad absurdum’d really easily, forcing Christian theologists to come up with the caveats (which is to say make shit up).
I mean… its still the Catholic church we’re dealing with here…
With a commandment stating “though shalt not kill” you’d think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter
Brother, have you picked up and read a Bible? Like even just Exodus?
Edit: I forgot that the fall of Jericho is the Book of Joshua, not Exodus, although timeline-wise, in the grand scheme of things, it’s still basically right after the Commandments, which was what I was getting at.
Joshua and the Promised Land fucking up my perception of how the Bible flows narratively.
I was raised baptist. There’s a difference between events of the bible and what christians are commanded to do. Frankly I don’t give a rat’s ass anymore.
Well yes, religion exists within society and that society’s pressures determine which interpretations and philosophies are amplified and which are silenced.
no, see, the bible prescribes stonings, not firing squads.
