So, it takes a world war between the super powers to accomplish that? Let me ask you this...does it matter if it happens over a ten year period, or do they all have to die in a two or three year period for it to count as a real nasty war?
*yawn* I'm not in the mood to go cruising google tonight. Feel free to if you want. It's not that damn simple anyway. Your thinking it is only proves how naive you are on the subject.
The United States reiterated that it would not talk with the North Koreans one-on-one, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the North that the U.S. would not attack. Rice rejected a suggestion that Pyongyang may feel it needs nuclear weapons to stave off an Iraq-style U.S. invasion. President Bush, she told CNN, has told "the North Koreans that there is no intention to invade or attack them. So they have that guarantee. ... I don't know what more they want." http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15727415.htm
Yeah, you're right God probably wants us to bring misery and pain on one another. I'm sure he doesn't want us to live peacefully according to his will. He was just kidding when he said love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, and do onto others. He's pretty funny. If the only suggestion I could ever come up with is to call whoever disagrees with me a hippy and to kill everyone who didn't look like me I'd call names too.
Nope..He doesn't want it that way. We brought it on ourselves. There will not be peace on earth until Christ comes back and demands it. It says that in the Bible also. But, you're right God probably wants us to just stick our heads in the sand and hope that all of the bad people just go away. Don't try and argue religion with me. You've already stated that you don't take the Bible literally numerous times. You cherry pick the parts that make you feel good and toss the rest out claiming it's nothing but fill material and wifes tales. Get off the hippy comment people. I told you that I take it back. You're worse than any hippy that ever lived. I don't judge on looks. I judge on actions.
True. I think the Bible is an inspired collection of stories, drama, poetry, prayers, and history. Books like the gospels are literal. Books like Job are stories that teach a lesson. False. I beleive the whole book is true, just not literal. Example... I read Genesis 1 and see that God created man and man brought sin into the world. I don't see a step by step all inclusive cookbook like fundamentalists.
All I will say is that the U.S. has a lot of interests over in Asia. If North Korea possesses a nuclear weapon, all of the sudden, those interests are in danger if Lil Kim gets an itchy trigger finger. We have an obligation to every citizen in this country to protect our interests and if that means going to war to do so, than so be it. That is the same realization my father came to back in 1972 when he was manning a guard tower along the DMZ in South Korea as an Army MP, right after he was wondering what the hell he was doing there. "The Bible nowhere prohibits war. In the Old Testament we find war and even conquest positively commanded, and although war was raging in the world in the time of Christ and his Apostles, still they said not a word of its unlawfulness and immorality." -- Major General H.W. Halleck, U.S. Army and "Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. War is part of God's world order. In it are developed the noblest virtues of man: courage and abnegation, dutifulness and self-sacrifice. Without war the world would sink into materialism." - Helmuth von Moltke ("The Elder")
