From: Gene McAloon 

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:50:34 -0400, James Adams  wrote:

>I wonder in which Gospel you can find authority for pre-emptive
>strikes.  Must not be in the RC New Testament.

For all their prattling on about Jesus, fundamentalists take most of the
reasoning and justifications from the Old Testament.

Although not pre-emptive in the usual sense, the Jews stealing the land of
the Canaanites would qualify because after all it was all for good of god
who told them that the land was/should be theirs.  That is a justification
still being used by religious Israelis to justify taking Palestinian/Arab
land.

You can justify anything using the Old Testament, which explains why it has been
around so long.

Gene

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