Christians and war?
October 6, 2009
One of the questions on religion and ethics from the students during my “Bishop’s Day” at the Hutchins School concerned my opposition to euthanasia (patient asssisted suicide/medical killing) on the grounds that God gives life and God alone should take life, and yet my support for killing in a ‘just war’.
In responding, I mentioned that the criteria for defining a ‘just war’ and their application to the war in Iraq could be seen in an article that I wrote prior to the outbreak of that war. Under each of the criteria for defining a ‘just war’ I set out questions that I believed (and still believe) needed to be answered before the proposed war with Iraq could be declared to be a ‘just war’ in which Australia should participate.
See Questions I have about war with Iraq - War: is it necessary? ever moral?
How would you have gone? lists other student questions.
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