Anyone who uses the name of God to justify a war is claiming to know the will of God, which is in itself pretty heretical. I don't think God wants anyone to die if it can be avoided, unless you are talking about the Old Testament.
And most of the instances of violence promoted in the New Testament have to do with the Christians being a minority oppressed by the authorities. Jesus broke away from many of the tendencies in the Old Testament, including adopting a pacifistic approach rather than a "chosen race" attitude the Israelites used to conquer other nations.
You want to wage a war, fine, but don't claim that God has given you permission to do so. You are asking for a one-way ticket to hell otherwise.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
