Does it really matter what any "holy book" says about the subject?
The pertinent question each person has to answer for himself is will you willingly and deliberately take the life (kill, murder) another person and, if so, under what circumstances? And once having committed the deed will you feel remorse about having deprived another human being of his life over some insult that the dead person committed against you? Will you admit your deed or try to cover it up?
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, people think that they are free but they willingly allow themselves to be oppressed and exploited in countless ways when all they have to do is to kill the person who has his foot on their throats. But they won't because they are afraid of taking the risks to free themselves.
After Moses came down from the mountain he slaughtered three thousand people for making woopie. And the survivors let him get away with it. They never tried to kill him for his murderous rampage.
Jael drove a tent-peg through Sisera's head while he was sleeping. She had deceived him by offering him hospitality and a place to sleep in her tent. It was war time and Sisera was the enemy commander. She took the risk to give her side a real advantage by personally killing the enemy commander by acting as if she was his trustworthy friend.
The pertinent question each person has to answer for himself is will you willingly and deliberately take the life (kill, murder) another person and, if so, under what circumstances? And once having committed the deed will you feel remorse about having deprived another human being of his life over some insult that the dead person committed against you? Will you admit your deed or try to cover it up?
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, people think that they are free but they willingly allow themselves to be oppressed and exploited in countless ways when all they have to do is to kill the person who has his foot on their throats. But they won't because they are afraid of taking the risks to free themselves.
After Moses came down from the mountain he slaughtered three thousand people for making woopie. And the survivors let him get away with it. They never tried to kill him for his murderous rampage.
Jael drove a tent-peg through Sisera's head while he was sleeping. She had deceived him by offering him hospitality and a place to sleep in her tent. It was war time and Sisera was the enemy commander. She took the risk to give her side a real advantage by personally killing the enemy commander by acting as if she was his trustworthy friend.
