Boudi,
I'm sorry. I'm going to tone it down and be more polite. My posts are certainly not showing much evidence of Christian love. I was shocked a bit. I've never met a Christian preacher that jokes around with the name of Jesus and I didn't need to get all up about it. Not to mention my other posts. So anyway I guess we know each others opinion on the use of the sword and neither will be swayed by the other.

ecu, if Paul didn't believe that the state is justified in using the sword to protect us from people who do evil then he would not have written that it is.
I wish Osama had allowed all those innocent people on 9/11 to plead for their lives, given a chance to explain why they're not guilty and why they should live.

Andy, this prosperity gospel is a heresy that has crept into many evangelical churches. Many of us evangelicals stand against it. As a Baptist I gotta tell you that I really don't know the southern Baptists. I do know that there are finger pointers in every church. I do know that Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are Baptists and are just as disgusted by the Westboro group as I am.