As a Christian how can you justify waging war?

2 out of 12 think you have not read the Bible. Rather it is they who have not done so. They as many only "claiming " to be Christians today, are in denial of the responsibilities that go with being a true Christian.

Obedience to our Leader, Jesus Christ, in worship of his Father is a main requirement. Jesus ordered, "I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one another. 35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves.” (John 13:34-35) This command forbids taking part in any wars of human governments and includes racism, nationalism or virtually any other kind of "--ism".

Denial that members of the same religions are on both sides of any conflict will not make them go away. To fight on either side would mean harming spiritual brothers in violation of the command of Jesus. Paul, under divine inspiration noted, "No; but I say that the things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want YOU to become sharers with the demons." (1 Cor.

10:20) Jesus stated, "“No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. YOU cannot slave for God and for Riches." Riches, human governments or Satan outright---all are the same enslavement to Satan's system.

No one can be a slave to both God and to Satan.

Quote from St Francis of Assisi (No, I'm not a Catholic, I just think this is germane to the discussion: "Just cause. War is permissible only to confront "a real and certain danger," i.e. , to protect innocent life, to preserve conditions necessary for decent human existence and to secure basic human rights.

Competent authority. War must be declared by those with responsibility for public order, not by private groups or individuals. Comparative justice.

In essence: Which side is sufficiently "right" in a dispute, and are the values at stake critical enough to override the presumption against war? Do the rights and values involved justify killing? Given techniques of propaganda and the ease with which nations and individuals either assume or delude themselves into believing that God or right is clearly on their side, the test of comparative justice may be extremely difficult to apply.

Right intention. War can be legitimately intended only for the reasons set forth above as a just cause. Last resort.

For resort to war to be justified, all peaceful alternatives must have been exhausted. Probability of success. This is a difficult criterion to apply, but its purpose is to prevent irrational resort to force or hopeless resistance when the outcome of either will clearly be disproportionate or futile.

Proportionality. This means that the damage to be inflicted and the costs incurred by war must be proportionate to the good expected by taking up arms.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.