hi thanks jj  wow you raise a lot of interesting points..

cos pacifist is not a term i equate with myself  i do wonder what it means in the way you use it... ?

you talk about human  culture and war do you think that it is a habit and a need for women?   or are you saying that women are irrelevant in any aspect of discussion of culture....

just asking not in any ways suggesting women are all angels...

i think given the hurt war causes there is that avenging or revenging thing complete with identification of the enemy.... that gives a sense of er justification somewhere... but who started it and why...but what do you think that is about? it is interesting though that war at least in modern terms is regarded as a national cause?thing?  the whole group response thing... has become individuals don't start war groups and therefore individuals acquiesce to war it has to happen all at the same time it seems it is very odd... do you think they ever find the enemy all the while they are searching for the enemy on the other side?....   

what do you suggest is going on in this  'intense emotional forum'?

i guess that for me the pastors should be doing something more useful and Christlike....  i don't see the point of activity that is not aimed at finishing the conflict once and for ALLTIME forever...

see told you i wasn't a pacifist

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

Two things:

Though personally I'm a pacifist in tendency, I do think that there is something about war that is so deep in human culture and habit and even need, that it's not as simple a matter as to say that war is wrong: it's more complex than that.  There is always a human need to connect at times of high emotion whether they be wanted or unwanted, good or bad; and war provides an intense forum for this, probably more often than times of celebration unfortunately. 


And the other thing is that pastors are there to mop up the emotional and spiritual damage to the soldiers, just like medics do with injuries, not so much to stop the war.