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    Thou Shalt Not Kill, What the Commandment Tells Us About War

    By S.G. Dargan

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    “Thou shalt not kill,” one of the Ten Commandments, is a door leading into a wealth of Biblical wisdom that could help Americans answer moral questions about the endless wars of our time. That door has been blocked, however, by the widespread idea that this commandment applies only to murder and not to war. S.G. Dargan’s book breaks through that barrier with penetrating analysis to show that not only this commandment, but the Christian gospel itself, has much to say about war.
    A coherent ethical vision is essential for finding realistic answers to troubling questions about America’s wars. Ethical precepts capable of commanding widespread assent will make possible some workable resolutions to our divisive debates over war. Yet, many of the current books dealing with war focus relatively little attention on finding an ethical basis. Here, the Bible can be a helpful resource for both Christians and non-Christians. Biblical ethics have considerable overlap with the ethical visions of other religions and philosophies.

    Biblical concepts of justice, then, can provide the basis for constructive discussions about our wars, with the potential for finding consensus solutions. This short book, starting from the Sixth Commandment, takes the reader, by careful steps, into a deeper and more useful Christian understanding of war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS.G. Dargan
    Release dateAug 22, 2018
    ISBN9780463702307
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    Thou Shalt Not Kill, What the Commandment Tells Us About War
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    S.G. Dargan

    The author is a retired accountant, living in rural South Carolina. He received a BA in Economics from a small liberal arts college and did some post-graduate study in that field. His work experience includes carpentry and small businesses, with accounting as a late vocation. He has three grown children. Church membership and service have been life-long avocations, along with studying the truth claims and social relevance of the Christian religion. Currently (in 2018) he is exploring United States war policy in light of the Bible’s teachings about war. "My personal experience of war has been mercifully limited. I was a draftee in the US Army during the Vietnamese conflict, serving in Vietnam during 1969, but I never had to experience combat. Doubts I had at the time about the necessity of the Vietnamese War were balanced by my generally conservative and patriotic inclinations. Subsequent revelations of the hidden history of that war, and later United States wars, added to my interest in critical evaluation of United States war policy."

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