<div dir="ltr">It isn't that the wars were necessarily just, only that their leaders told<br>them that they were. That's all most people need.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Paul B <<a href="mailto:pb.stuff@gmail.com">pb.stuff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:13 AM, John Smith <<a href="mailto:jsmith2627@att.net" target="_blank">jsmith2627@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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You're right to say most Christians in most<br>
eras have supported just wars.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Except maybe the crusades (I'm sure it didn't seem just to those who'd been living in the Levant previous). <br><br>And the wars fought in Europe before the 20th century (with Christians on both sides, can both sides in a war be just?)<br>
<br>And the colonial wars of the 19th-20th century. (See crusades)<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Jack<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Paul <br></div></div>
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