How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?

Soldiers, militias, warriors, armies, etc have been apart of human history since the beginning of time- I imagine that there is something about them in even the oldest religions.



How does your religion view the military?

How do YOU view the military?



I ask this because my Jehovah's Witness friend is not fond if my consideration of joining the army, and after reading some it seems that his religion affects his views.How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?I'm not religious...but I support my troops.How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?
I am afraid Julius Caesar is a terrorist, just as I learned from an atheist. This implies that all military leaders are terrorists.



Thanks for the thumbs down because it proves my point.

The french people reveres terrorism. They managed to ally themselves once with the Ottomans because the geography of the Ottomans were relevant to Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar has been to Bithynia and other parts of Anatolia. The french in short harbors terrorism and should be invaded by the United States next.How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?There's a saying: "There are no atheists in foxholes." However, there actually are atheists in foxholes, and I'm glad about that, because I'm going into the army after I graduate from college (to help pay for graduate school and get some valuable training).
I'm atheist and I think it sucks when innocent people have to die for unnecessary things. War is painful for EVERYONE involved, even the 'victors'. There must be better ways to solve conflicts.



Don't join the army. It's not worth it. I support the troops and that is why I want them home.How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?Well to me I know that war is apart of our sinful world. I don't think it's going to be easy to stop, and probably even impossible. I don't think God supports war, but we are sinful humans who don't easily get along with others....How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?
My religious beliefs don't influence my views of the military at all. My time in the military does have an influence on my views of the military.
some do have views that they can not fight but there are also views that you have to keep your freedom and to fight is only way you can do this. so its up to you not soemone else.How does your religious beliefs affect your views on the military?
i was in the army for four years. there's priests and pastors in the army. I'd like to see your jw friend when the country is being invaded going: "Where's the army?"
Render unto God, render unto Ceasar.
I was an officer in the Air Force one of the last to sit nuclear alert as a F-111F pilot. I had quite the challenge to understand my place in the plan. I think I live in a country that is doing it's best to help the world and just like any human we have mistakes. I think mostly what we do as a military in the U.S. is part of making the world a more peaceful place.



My religion is Christianity and I take it very seriously any killing of human beings and understand the law of war.



I view the military as any other human organization. There are faults and there are many intentions due to the size.
Serving the only true God, we all need to worship him acceptably not doing the opposite of what he wants us to do.



(Luke 10:27) In answer he said: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind,’ and, ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”



(Matthew 5:43-44) “YOU heard that it was said, ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44?However, I say to YOU: Continue to love YOUR enemies and to pray for those persecuting YOU."



(Matthew 7:12) “All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean."



(Isaiah 48:17-18) "This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit [yourself], the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk. 18?O if only you would actually pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea."



Think about who promotes military, starting wars.



Dragonlike Satan is also the one that gives power and great authority to the symbolic wild beast having seven heads and ten horns, and in turn, he is worshiped by the peoples of “all the earth.” (Re 13:2-4) John in vision also sees that the croaking froglike “expressions inspired by demons,” which go out to “the kings of the entire inhabited earth,” come from the mouth of the Dragon, or Satan, as well as out of the mouths of “the wild beast” and “the false prophet.” The effect this has is to gather these rulers and their supporters “to the war of the great day of God the Almighty .?.?. to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon [Armageddon].” (Re 16:13-16) Following this greatest of all wars, the “angel” that comes down from heaven will seize “the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan,” and will bind him and abyss him for a thousand years.—Re 20:1-3