Comments on: Just War

By: Stilbelieve

Stilbelieve — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:28:14 +0000

“with national discussion of the preferential option for the poor”

Would someone please tell me where in the New Testament Jesus taught his disciples to go get government to take care of the poor?

By: Tom Renquist

Tom Renquist — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:51:56 +0000

As much as we Lutherans might like to claim him as one of our own, Reinhold Niebuhr was not a Lutheran. He was a member of the Evangelical Synod of North America, an American transplant of the Prussian Union of Lutherans and Reformed in Germany.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:22:18 +0000

Leaving aside the preposterous idea that the “double-effect” of torturing prisoners renders it okay, I want to disagree with the Catholic-Protestant distinction being made here.

The first 1500 years of Christendom do not belong to the Roman church alone. Saint Augustine and just war theory are, for example, as much a part of the Lutheran and Episcopal traditions as the Roman Catholic.

By: Matt Shadle

Matt Shadle — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:39:29 +0000

I am really curious to know how the debate participant used double effect to defend waterboarding. It seems that the principle would clearly point in the other direction.

By: Michael PS

Michael PS — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:28:17 +0000

EU Council Regulations, of all things, invariably include a reference to the principle of subsidiarity, contained in Article 5 of the Treaty of Rome

E.g. “In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the objectives of this Regulation cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved by the Community. This Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve those objectives.”