Pennyworth wrote:ChristophMessner wrote:How would you fight the mafia, Paul?By being far away from them and staying hidden and sniping from a distance (this board is the tool we use).The meek shall inherit the earth? Thats probably because they stay away from the gunfire...everyone else is being killed in wars and vendettas and revenge caused by greed, lust, vanity, sloth etc... Satan rules part of the world .....he is here to steal, kill and destroy...God gave Satan free dominion according to Genesis because of man's sins in the Garden of Eden .....: he roams around and around making his deadly rounds...the devil hates the human race...these people who do evil deeds are the devil's incarnate...RFK was right when he said that the 'The Mafia is the Devil'....Genesis 3:22 (coming up)
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseact ... rseID/80PP: I have read that Genesis 3:22 is the origin from which Cross &Skullbones derived the numberHenry Kissinger stated that 'Soliders Are Stupid Pawns" Early Church Opposed to Military Service In taking this stand, the early Christians repelled the very same arguments which are advanced today by opponents of conscientious objection. Reply to Celsus by Origenes“How much more (reasonable it is that), when others are serving in the army, these (Christians) should do their military service as priests and servants of God—help the Emperors more than those who, to all appearance, serve as soldiers.The Early Christian ChurchConscientiously OpposedTo Military Service “The rise of Christianity led to a rapid growth of conscientious objection. According to A. Harnack, C.J. Cadoux, and G.J. Herring, the most eminent students of the problem, few if any Christians served in the Roman Army during the first century and a half A.D.; and even in the third century there were Christian conscientious objectors.”Gentile free and freed men who were Christians would thus hardly ever be called upon to serve.”Harnack’s conclusion is that no Christian would become a soldier after baptism at least up to the time of Marcus Aurelius, say about A.D. 170 (Militia Christi, p. 4). After that time, signs of compromise became increasingly evident, but the pacifist trend continues strong right up into the fourth century.”“During its first three centuries of existence, the Christian church was opposed to war and other forms of violence. Christian opposition to war early expanded into a denial of the rightness of all coercive action on the part of the civil power. Thus arose that form of conscientious objection which has been designated as political non-participation.”“For years many Christians regarded service in the army as inconsistent with their profession. Some held that for them all bloodshed, whether as soldiers or executioners, was unlawful.”“During a considerable period after the death of Christ, it is certain…that his followers believed He had forbidden war, and that, in consequence of this belief, many of them refused to engage in it, whatever were the consequences, whether reproach, or imprisonment, or death. These facts are indisputable: ‘It is as easy,’ says a learned writer of the 17th century, ‘to obscure the sun at midday, as to deny that the primitive Christians renounced all revenge and war.’ Of all the Christian writers of the second century, there is not one who notices the subject, who does not hold it to be unlawful for a Christian to bear arms.”
