Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
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Link… “The ability to document one’s convictions is important. Documenting these beliefs before you actually file a claim for Conscientious Objector status is particularly helpful.“
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A Federal Judge has ordered the Army to grant conscientious objector status and an honorable discharge to a soldier who says he experienced a religious awakening in Iraq.
Statements by a former soldier … Pfc Michael Barnes
“I FEAR NOT FOR MY LIFE, BUT FOR MY SOUL”
“I have been trying to justify being a soldier and finding a way to do so while still being a Christian, because that is what I wanted to do since I was a kid,” Barnes wrote in his request for conscientious objector status in December 2006.
“But I can no longer justify spending my short time in this world participating in or supporting war. … I must try to save souls, not help take them. I fear not for my life, but for my soul.”
“How would I justify to the Lord that participating in war is serving him?” Barnes wrote.
“I cannot. War is evil, and nothing but evil comes from it. Many of those who participate in it lose their souls along the way.”
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: I FEAR NOT FOR MY LIFE, BUT FOR MY SOUL
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See also…
A CHRISTIAN DECLARATION ON PEACE, WAR AND MILITARY SERVICE – 1953
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD, PENTECOSTALS, PACIFISM
IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT
ISRAEL AND IRAN WAR (A MODERN DAY WAKE-UP CALL)
AND THIS LITTLE CHURCH WENT TO WAR
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Books…
PENTECOSTAL PACIFISM – book
OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY – book
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Poems..
PRO-LIFE, PRO-WAR? – A Peace Poem
FOR ALL MY SAVIOR DIED – A Peace Poem
IF YOU ALREADY KNOW – A Peace Poem
PRINCE OF PEACE – A Peace Poem
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