Hockeycowboy Good question... I reply you are mixed up.... Fighting for right and the good is what all men are suppose to do! We have always had wars going back into the Old Testament there were wars! Sitting back as an objector to war refusing to fight for family or the innocent is Hypocritical these objectors living in a free society that was won by the blood of good people defending truth and freedom & all that is good then saying "I will not fight" is very close to being a sin! If these objectors were to live in North Korea or China they would not have religious freedom to practice their faith!
Hockeycowboy It is a sin to MURDER! It is a sin to KILL children and the innocent! It is NOT a sin to fight for what is right to fight and protect the innocent and family! The crusades is a good example Muslims were pouring into Spain killing, raping & obduction into slavery teaching there religion under threat of death. They were driven back; Spain is a Christian country today because of the blood of these Christian men!
To refuse blood transfusion for a child thus killing the child is called MURDER in my book! No scriptures say.. Do not transfuse blood! To say scriptures do say "Do NOT transfuse blood" is reading into God' holy word what is not there! It is twisting and massaging the scriptures until killing a innocent child become not a sin but a grace coming from God! Clearly Satan has his evil hand is this teaching!
I read.. "Do not eat blood" in my bible!
Hockeycowboy you have fallen for a lie.... The One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church Jesus founded on ROCK not on Sand did not support Hitler!
Up to January 30, 1933, the German Bishops had put the sentence of excommunication upon anyone belonging to the Nazi party. This excommunication was lifted as soon as Hitler came to power. The Church was clearly concerned to protect the rights of Catholics in Nazi Germany. This is why Pope Pius XI made a contract with Hitler. When the pope was criticized for signing this concordat, he is supposed to have said “I would sign a contract with the devil himself, if thereby I could help save a single immortal soul.”
The twentieth century has been marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims.
During this dark time, the Catholic Church was shepherded by Pope Pius XII, who proved himself an untiring foe of the Nazis, determined to save as many Jewish lives as he could. Yet today Pius XII gets almost no credit for his actions before or during the war.
Anti-Catholic author Dave Hunt writes, “The Vatican had no excuse for its Nazi partnership or for its continued commendation of Hitler on the one hand and its thunderous silence regarding the Jewish question on the other hand. . . . [The popes] continued in the alliance with Hitler until the end of the war, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from the Nazi government to the Vatican.”
FACT IS: Early in 1940, Hitler made an attempt to prevent the new Pope from maintaining the anti-Nazi stance he had taken before his election. He sent his underling, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to try to dissuade Pius XII from following his predecessor’s policies. “Von Ribbentrop, granted a formal audience on March 11, 1940, went into a lengthy harangue on the invincibility of the Third Reich, the inevitability of a Nazi victory, and the futility of papal alignment with the enemies of the Führer. Pius XII heard von Ribbentrop out politely and impassively. Then he opened an enormous ledger on his desk and, in his perfect German, began to recite a catalogue of the persecutions inflicted by the Third Reich in Poland, listing the date, place, and precise details of each crime. The audience was terminated; the Pope’s position was clearly unshakable.”
Rev 18: 2 “And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: “She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a place where every unclean spirit and every unclean and hated bird lurks!”
Rev 18:9 “And the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality with her and lived with her in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her when they see the smoke from her burning. 10 They will stand at a distance because of their fear of her torment and say: ‘Too bad, too bad, you great city, Babylon you strong city, because in one hour your judgment has arrived!’
11 “Also, the merchants of the earth are weeping and mourning over her, because there is no one to buy their full cargo anymore, 12 a full cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, and scarlet cloth; and everything made from scented wood; and every sort of object made from ivory, and from precious wood, copper, iron, and marble; 13 also cinnamon, Indian spice, incense, perfumed oil, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and human lives.
* 14 Yes, the fine fruit that you
* desired has left you, and all the delicacies and the splendid things have vanished from you, never to be found again.
15 “The merchants who sold these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance because of their fear of her torment and will weep and mourn, 16 saying: ‘Too bad, too bad, the great city, clothed with fine linen, purple, and scarlet and richly adorned with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls,+17 because in one hour such great riches have been devastated!’
“And every ship captain and every seafaring person and sailors and all those who make a living by the sea stood at a distance”
18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke from her burning and said: ‘What city is like the great city?’ 19 They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and said: ‘Too bad, too bad, the great city, in which all those who had ships at sea became rich from her wealth, because in one hour she has been devastated!’+
20 “Be glad over her, O heaven,
+ also you holy ones+ and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced his judgment on her in your behalf!”
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21 And a strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: “Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.
+ 22 And the sound of singers who accompany themselves on the harp, of musicians, of flutists, and of trumpeters will never be heard in you again. And no craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again, and no sound of a millstone will ever be heard in you again. 23 No light of a lamp will ever shine in you again, and no voice of a bridegroom and of a bride will ever be heard in you again; for your merchants were the top-ranking men of the earth, and by your spiritistic practices
+ all the nations were misled. 24 Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones
+ and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.”
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