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Submitted by Steven Kaszab

“for everything there is a season…a time for war and a time for peace” Ecclesiastes.

The Bible reflects the experiences of its authors and communities who shape the sacred texts written long ago. These texts share the victories and defeats of a small nation among larger great empires. The Bible often entreats the Hebrew people to make war upon their opponents. Horrible things have been done in accordance with such biblical instructions. This problematic violence associated with the divine text, advice with blessings upon nations that struggle and make war upon one another creates a challenge to our present day faithful. The text advises the Hebrews and following in their foot steps Christians how to treat the enemies women folk, how to wage war and make due with sacrifices to their ever present God. Moses commanded that women capture in war be treated as wives and not slaves. (Deuteronomy 21) and that captives be allowed to return to their homes (Chronicles 2). In fact Priests of the time were advised in tactics of war and diplomacy. Gods people are called to war with a blessing from their priests, who offer the opposition 1st terms of peace where by is accepted the village or town would be enslaved. Certain peoples were worthy of annihilation by the Hebrew Army especially if they did not produce food. There was a overall hope that with peace will come a betterment of society “where people will neither learn war any more” (Micah 3:4) and turn their weapons into tools of agriculture(Isaiah 2:4). 

For the Hebrew or Christian war was a result of human sinfulness, something that God would ultimately transform into peace. The Hebrew Shalom means more than peace and a absence of war, its all about humanity flourishing in unity. Most of the Bible’s New Testament was penned in a era where Christians were a prosecuted minority within the Rome Empire. The Book of Revelations speaks of the horrors imparted upon Christians of the time. Christians refused to join the Roman Army remembering Jesus’s statement to Peter who attempted to defend Jesus with a sword telling him “to put the sword away because a sword only leads to more violence”( Matthew 26:52). The bible is full of examples of varying ideologies reflecting upon war flowing from pacifism to idea’s of a just war. These are merely human developments leading to a clear path of understanding what conflict truly has become. Ultimately the counter solution to divine violence and war leads the reader or the bible and history to a vision imaging a world where violence and suffering are no more. 

Islam emerged historically in a hostile environment of the seventh century. Responding to a major challenges including on going conflicts Islam introduced pioneering legal and ethical reforms. The Quran lays out clear legal and ethical guidelines for the conduct during a war well before most other societies. Jihad is defined within the Islamic teaching as a legal, morally justified struggle. In context of a armed struggle Jihad refers specifically to fighting a just cause under legal and ethical guidelines, rather than aggressive warfare. Between 610-622 The Prophet practiced active non violence in the face of constant suffering, prosecution and economic embargo’s they experienced in Mecca. The saying that armed struggle cannot be taken up against the members of the same society developed from this moment onwards. Conflict was often seen as a human tool leading to anarchy 

Yet war is justified should a people be driven from their homes through occupation by a foreign power. 

The Quran permits Muslims to fight a war against those who have initiated conflict or done wrong to the faithful. Overall attitudes towards conflict see it as unjust and condemned by both humanity and Divinity. However humanity will always find a way and reason to carry out war be it political, religious or a legality. In the 20th Century most religions and agents of morality viewed conflict as antiquated and unwanted yet sometimes a necessity. The two world wars are examples of a justifiable conflict of good against human evil. 

The Hebrews are no a pacifist religion. There is a clear recognition of the need for fighting a justifiable war but only within certain boundaries. The Torah stresses that army service is compulsory. Torah rules apply to the way war is waged however stressing that the killing of defenceless women and children is horrific and taboo. Hebrews have a strong tradition towards peaceful existence proclaiming the “soldier will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against another nation, neither shall they learn of war any more”.  A lovely thought today as a war of attrition continues in Gaza while the world attempts to bring peace to a land that knows not the existence of a historical peace. God has been set aside by superpower influences that have given permission to let loose the dogs of war all over our precious earth. 

“But if the enemy inclines towards peace, then you must also incline towards peace and Trust in God” Quran

To All My Brothers and Sisters : Shalom – and  As-salamu Alaykum (Peace Be Upon You). 

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14 responses to “A Religious View of War”

  1. Dirt Farmer Avatar
    Dirt Farmer

    @ War..

    Don ain’t scared to use dem Irons!!!!!!

    How did we get here and there?
    Don. threatens military action in Nigeria, citing alleged killings of Christians.

    President Trump on Saturday told the Department of Defense (DOD) to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria over alleged attacks on Christians in the African country.

    “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
    “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action,” the post continued. “If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”

    I guess de Don like bajan cuisine “oiling down.”

    What would strikes on Venezuela look like? US drafts target list.

    The Trump administration has drawn up a secret list of targets in Venezuela the U.S. could strike upon orders of the president, according to several officials familiar with the effort, which experts said was expected to include ports, airports and other sites run by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro but also used by drug cartels to transit illegal narcotics.

    The classified target list, briefed to Senate Republicans earlier this week, along with a massive buildup of military assets in the region that includes some 10,000 troops, has fueled speculation that President Donald Trump could order strikes at any moment.

    As of Friday afternoon, it was not clear whether Trump would act. Military sources said they did not expect an imminent attack, and Trump himself told reporters he has not made a decision.

    Trump, though, has previously threatened to hit Venezuela by land. And, one person familiar with how the operations would proceed if a military strike were ordered, said there were “several indications” a strike may happen “within the next 72 hours.”

    MORE: Trump administration gave GOP senators secret details about strikes on alleged drug boats, leaving Dems on outs
    The last time Trump ordered a large-scale military attack in June — a surprise B-2 stealth bomber strike on Iranian nuclear sites — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the public two days prior that Trump would make a decision on military action “within two weeks.” According to The New York Times, planning for the operation was already underway and her comments were part of a misdirection campaign.

    Mia, do something, as de world #1 moderator. Please, your voice has conviction. Articulate the path for peace and unity.

    Can you change Don’s diet? De old folks always say, “Too much oil ain’t good for you.”

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Kamala has reassured all to be calm. No need for Mia to say anything, this is big people business.

  3. Dirt Farmer Avatar
    Dirt Farmer

    Gotcha !!

  4. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    It is abundantly clear that our world has gone completely mad…
    Should this not DICTATE an urgency in exploring beyond the mundane rituals and idiocies of life as we know it….
    Where little makes any sense now, and NOTHING lasts…
    Not health, nor wealth, not peace, not power, not praise…

    Only love, righteous character, and Godliness can prevail against such hopelessness.
    But these attributes are so basic, so obvious and so intuitive, that in today’s world of shiite and brassbowlery, they are not even up for debate…

    What a world …where the first things are last, and the shiite things are first … although ALL the results confirm that jobby is out front and winning…

    What a curse!

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What a roll of buushiiite of the Bushie variety!

    A man who is here presented to us as a writer on the non religious is all of a sudden moved to talk shiiite for which not a scintilla of evidence is presented. Lies used to reinforce other lies!

    Of course, and like rasssoul Bushie, the clock he knows only goes back a few thousand years, at best and at worse, to the sixth or seventh century AD, when another specious narrative was concocted to rival the propaganda of Jesus.

    Jesús Christ, does anybody ever considers what the earth was like prior to this foolishness. Are these assholes forever destined to continue these made up narratives when we well know that humans were on the earth for hundreds of thousands of years prior, and we can now prove this with incontrovertible evidence.

    Indeed, these humans that nobody ever brings up long predated the great White hopes in these narratives. Further, everything these White knew was learnt at the feet of Afrikans, included spirituality which the wicked commercialized into religion and then presume to insert themselves into the real story about the history of mankind.

    Bushie is up to this day still laboring under the lies so invented.

    Certainly, the Bible is the most violent book ever concocted. And this tissue of lies was precisely designed by White Christians for the sole purpose of the imperial conquest of the rest of mankind.

    And it was rasssoul Bushie in the first crusade who marched as a loyal Christian soldier, as if to war, as he still sings from the days of his Sunday school, and with the cross of Jesus going on before. That fecker!

    These idiots all, even as war was waged against the Palestinian people today are still insisting that books written in wickedness must direct the same criminal violence on the innocent. These books, written for wickedness, still serve that purpose, this day.

    Even rasssoul Bushie has not relented in blaming the Palestinians, the victims of the violence of his dirty religion and bible, under some specious rubric of a convenient karma as the same settler-colonial people, who wrote them with their own hand has Bushie believing shiiite that these lies are the words of some who never previously existed.

    The only out of these lies, totally supported by Bushie, is to kill all the Christians, burn every bible, kill their false gods, burn every church, make their lies illegal.

  6. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Boss
    You may be confusing ‘rasssoul Bushie’ with yours truly, …‘stinking’ Bushie…

    In any event your paranoid hysteria about matters spiritual is MUCH more of a reflection of your ignorance, than it is of rasssoul Bushie’s.

    Why not let us both take it easy and await the outcome…
    We won’t have a long wait…
    …And besides, patience is one of the great virtues.

  7. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Weeeee take objection to that tooo Christian refrain

    But am afraid that your mind is so thoroughly propagated with foolishness that even in your call you are expectant that Pacha, out of ignorance, awaits your expected outcome, even as you preach your criminal gospel of threats.

    Pacha has no expectation of either going up or down – heaven or hell – because neither has ever existed.

    Even if humans muster the intestinal fortitude to do what you expect, and Pacha too, nobody will intervene, like nobody intervened when those same circumstances came about five times previously. Meaning we’ll all end up in Boot Hill.

    No Jesús, no Jehovah, none of your fictional tales will happen.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    “…faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1)

  9. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Faith belongs to the ignorant. Those who know, need no such thing.

    Faith is the disposition awaiting the wicked to exploit.

    And anybody can find out the truth, without holding any preconcieved ideas.

  10. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Those of us who see Afrika as not only our spiritual home, but our actual home, from the diaspora who actually moved back home, should with equal zeal call out murderous, genocidal, political criminals like Samia Suluhu from Tanzania, the woman who has distinguished herself as the most brutal dictator currently.

    Just out of an election where leading opposition personalities were jailed, illegally disqualified and when sycophants titularly ran against Suluhu. A Muslim woman permanently downed in head covering, claiming to have received more than 97 percent of votes casted.

    An election where stuffed ballot boxes were evidenced being transported from very early in the morning of Election Day. And in the aftermath of such sham elections, but early on Election Day also, when young people came to the streets to protest in spite of the Suluhu’s regime cutting off the internet, when hundreds of such protesters were killed by the military even as factions joined with the popular protestors in some areas.

    People like Mia Mottley and other Caricom leaders, now as the Sixth Afrikan Region, cannot on the one hand claim Africanity and on the other allow this criminal to be deified. The same must be said of the African Union, not unlike a feckless Caricom as a instrument of the European Union whose salaries are paid by the EU, whose very headquarters building was gifted by the Chinese, cannot expect to have the confidence of Afrikan peoples when they are perceived to be merely clubs of the political elites.

    Such secret societies seem sworn never to criticize other criminal dictators as if merely lodges.

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Those who suggested that the idiot in the White House lacks the intestinal fortitude seemed to have been right. That too, but he never stood a change of cashing the military cheque his big mouth wrote.

    Not that this writer particularly cares about such less than significant matters. The matter of being right or wrong.

    Also, like a puerile child Drumpf has, over days, been seeking to excite himself with the prospect of an invasion of Nigeria, a country of nearly 300 million, about have of whom are Christians, half Muslims, some traditionalists too, and doing so under the misguided notion that Christians in Nigeria are being genocided.

    Similar charges have also been made about South Afrika. About them, Drumpf asserts that the Black government is ill-treating the racist Boers.

    This cannot be a mind which could possibly invade or even plot a CIA regime change coup as Commander-in-Chief. Indeed, the Maduro government, with the help of Wagner or Russian private security forces have already wiped out the CIA sent mercenaries.

    Matters like these are firmly located on the margins however. What has really made Drumpf decide to cancel the Venezuela misbegotten Christian crusade, in our judgement, are the urgings of the Pentagon.

    Those generals and his inteligence chief would have told him that there is an almost zero chance of pervailing over Venezuela. Primarily because of the backing of Russia, Iran and China. Based on their vastly superior technological prowess alone, these countries are up to 20 years ahead of America.

    So this braggart about America’s lack of leadership in military tech seems to be trying to find a way out without appearing to be the loser he is. And if there’s one thing about Drumpf, he never likes to be seen as the loser which he’s always been.

    As the media loses interest, they would have prepared an escape route for Drumpf.

  12. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/tNDxdq2ZS2o?si=NY9X1f-fa6l2Bnz9

    For Bushie!

  13. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    MANKIND’S HATRED OF GOD IS BIRTHED WITHIN THE METASTATIC WOMB OF A *SLUT* WHO GAVE BIRTH TO NARCISSUS WITH INGLORIOUS ATTRIBUTES OF SATANIC MEGALOMANIA

    Within the ambit of #GrecianMythology is the most well-known version in Ovid’s “METAMOROHOSES”, where Narcissus – a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia, was celebrated for his extraordinary beauty, which attracted many admirers, yet he rejected all advances with disdain – then suddenly, “FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN REFLECTION” in a pool of water, after being cursed by the goddess “NEMESIS” for his “ARROGANCE”, leading to his eventual demise & transformation into the narcissus flower!!!

    This myth is the origin of the term “NARCISSISM”, describing a self-centered personality, & in extreme cases, #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder, characterized by grandiosity, a need for admiration, lack of empathy & a “CLOSE-MINDEDNESS” shatters all faith & belief in something “GREATER THAN THEMSELVES”!!!

    A closed hand received “NOTHING” – a closed “MIND” is like dark clouds with no rain!!!

    In the same breath, an open hand receives “MANY GIFTS” – while an open heart become a prism of “LIGHT”!!!

    HENCE THEREFORE, THOUGHT LESSON 4 TODAY

    THE EGOMANIACAL MANIA OF NARCISSUS

    The epistemological & philosophical penchant of a “MEGALOMANIAC” can be characterized by a distinct & dysfunctional framework for understanding reality, the self, & “OTHERS”. It’s not merely an “INFLATED EGO” but a systemic distortion of knowing oneself & being of one self!!!

    Sociological Epistemology asks: “HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW?”

    A megalomaniac’s epistemology is fundamentally broken & can be defined by several core tenets!!!

    First, “SOLIPSISTIC FOUNDATION”, as the primary, & often only, sees valid sources of knowledge as the SELF*. Their own thoughts, desires, & perceptions are treated as INFALLIBLE DATA” – a transhumanist interpretation of how all else must be seen in the light of what cerebral geometry results in cosmic mind fluctuations & electron, neural pathways of interpretive knowledge!!!

    The external world, including other minds, is not a source of “TRUTH” to be discovered, but rather “RAW MATERIAL” to be interpreted through the lens of their own GRANDIOSITY”. If they believe something, it becomes true & thus the “GOSPEL” according to……… #FillTheBlanks!!!

    The rejection of intersubjectivity argues that “HEALTHY KNOWLEDGE” is built on intersubjective verification, comparing our subjective experiences with others to arrive at a shared, consensual reality!!!

    The megalomaniac rejects this entirely. Other people’s perspectives are “DISMISSED” as “IRRELEVANT”, “MISTAKEN”, & EVEN MALICIOUS”. There is “NO VIEW FROM NOWHERE”; there is only “THE VIEW FROM ME”!!!

    Then there is “CONFIRMATION BIAS AS A PRIMARY TOOL”, where their cognitive process is dominated by an extreme form of confirmation bias. They actively seek out & remember information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs of superiority, omnipotence, & special destiny. Contradictory evidence is not analyzed; it is ignored, rationalized away, or attacked as part of a conspiracy against them!!!

    THIS SOUND VERY MUCH LIKE THE ZIONIST CANCER CELL THAT HAS METASTASIZED ACROSS THE GLOBAL NORTH IN 2025, TO SUCH GLARING PROPORTIONS THAT TO EVEN MENTION THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT IT IS MEANT TO BE WITHIN THE MAINSTREAM – IS HITLERIAN!!!

    Not even “TRUE FOLLOWERS OF YESHUA MESSIAH” can claim any form of “EXCLUSIVITY” – for “MESSIAH ALONE HAS EXCLUSIVITY” as HE* is the “PERFECT ONE”: all else “FAILS”!!!

    The “CRITERION OF UTILITY OVER TRUTH” for the “UTILITARIAN” megalomaniacs, sees “TRUTH VALUE” of a belief secondary to its “POWER VALUE.” A belief is “TRUE” (ONLY) if it is useful for maintaining their “SELF-IMAGE”, justifying their “ACTIONS”, or “MANIPULATING” others. Even ancients “FACTS” are malleable tools in their project of self-aggrandizement!!!

    THIS IS THE CEREBRAL MECHANICS OF MEN LIKE TRUMP & THOSE WHO ARE LIKE HIM – (both on the “LEFT” & on the “RIGHT” – even those somewhere in the “MIDDLE”)!!!

    Like narcissists, their epistemology is a form of “RADICAL SUBJECTIVISM” or better yet, “PSYCHOTIC REALISM”, where the internal landscape of the mind is mistaken for the external world itself!!!

    REPENT, REPENT, REPENT & TURN TO CHRIST OUR SOON-COMING YESHUA MESSIAH!!!

    #HereEndTodaysLesson

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    Little Jimmy, Stand Up For A Right

    In a Spiritual Way you have to Stand Up For A Right.

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