The Bible is not primarily addressed to individuals, because it is precisely as individuals that we are most likely to fail as Christians. The New Testament is not how to be better individual Christians, it is a picture of how the church should look. T…

In most cases, the people who reap the benefits are not the people who make the sacrifice and most of the sacrifices made were coerced. Therefore, it makes no sense to balance them out. All you can conclude is what choices people make when their choices are limited.

The War To End All Wars was most certainly ruinous and I dispute that it needed to be fought — least of all by Canadians or Americans. I do not buy all the pap that says we were fighting oppression. You tell that to the people who suffered and then had to send their children back to the battlefield.

Let me ask you this: Would the Second World War even exist if the Americans did not enter the First World War?
I think not. Before the Americans entered WW1, the European forces were tiring and would have likely negotiated a settlement. Germany would not have been crushed and blamed for everything.

Let me ask you this: Was World War I ruinous? World War II? They needed to be fought. They resulted in freedom for the people who suffered through them. They prevented oppression and war from coming on others.

Is no sacrifice worth the pain? Or is it just that I am not qualified to judge because I did not personally choose to sacrifice?

The death and destruction of property alone seem to me to be ruinous. The Irak war has undoubtedly been ruinous for the Irakis who have been killed and maimed — let alone the people who have lost property.

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I see no reason to have a different perspective. I like to think that it is just pure luck that I was born in Canda and not in Afghanistan or Irak.