A soldier, by deffinition is a skilled WARRIOR.
A police officer, by deffinition is a keeper of the PEACE.
Saying that there job is the same IS a distortion of the truth.
Lumping togeather Police Officers and soldiers just because they put there lives at risk is a distortion of the truth. You might as well throw in coal miners and high-voltage linesmen. A Police Officer would never be subject to non-judical punishment on the charges of destruction of government...
After reading that little story I'm going to begin worshiping the old sun gods (Apollo, Helios, etc). The Sun is the source of both the heat and light on this planet. Hey, if you think about it most evil things happen at night....;)
If you don't belive in Original Sin, like myself, then there is no need to seek forgiveness when you die. How can you be forgiven and still have to stand judgement?
I would say that a police officer that was both decent and intelligent is entirely posible. At the same time he may be repulsed by some of the laws he is to uphold, but that is not the same thing as being a soldier. For one thing, a soldier has no choice, by definition he is property of the...
The stament wasn't that they weren't intelligent OR decent, just that they couldn't be both, or one would surely be repulsed by what they were doing. IMO (it wasn'y my post, just my interperatation).
Since when are we the judges of what is right and wrong? If you ask the people of the Middle East WE are the "evil-doers" and who is to say they are not right? WE are invaders on their land, not the other way around. To them, we are a modern day Roman Empire, the epitome of evil in the New...
Hey eveyone, my name is Todd. I'm a 27 year old that lives with my girlfriend of 4 years in Louisville, KY. I am a Gnostic and a Libertarian, and I love a good debate. I also enjoy video gaming (both CPU and console) and movies as well as playing basketball.
The question was who invented the Trinity. Before the council of Nicea the concept of the Holy Trinity was only a CONCEPT that SOME christians believed in. It was at the council that the Trinity was made offical doctraine.
IF ROE V. WADE IS OVERTURNED IT DOES NOT MEAN A NATIONWIDE ABORTIAN BAN!
It simply means that the choice whether or not to allow abortions will once again return to the individual states. What this means is if a woman lives in a red state she's gonna have to make a weekend out of it.