Self Defense and Religion

[Oh Shoot]

Always handy to be Catholic.

Just do anything you want, as long as you confess later.

- OS

[TGO David]

Always handy to be Catholic.

Just do anything you want, as long as you confess later.

- OS

Baptists generally have it better. Once forgiven, always forgiven.

[Guest SUNTZU]

What if you're an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac?

I stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

[Oh Shoot]

What if you're an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac?

I stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

Well, your dogma has probably been run over by your karma.

- OS

[Guest db99wj]

Only the Catholic church historically translates it as 'kill' - the Torah, Qur'an, and virtually all protestant Christian Bibles translate it as 'murder'.

Yes and no.

This is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is bascially the Church's stance on things. Kinda like their law book.

Legitimate defense

2263

The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. "The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one's own life; and the killing of the aggressor. . . . The one is intended, the other is not."65

2264 Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:

If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful. . . . Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own life than of another's.

66

2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.

Edited August 28, 2008 by db99wj

[TGO David]

[Guest nraforlife]

If your killed in Church do you go right to heaven?