(July 16, 2013 at 8:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They are down to second lieutenants and sergeants. Hardly the policy-makers.
"Just following orders" was not a defense of doing something totally heinous, but it's kind of hard to see why someone who was a young soldier, say being ordered to guard a concentration camp while knowing that disagreeing with that duty would result in punishment, should be prosecuted for war crimes.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.