Today is the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the complex of German Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II. Each anniversary since 2005 is now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Bible has much to say about violence. Many people do not read the Bible, so they do not know …
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Violence towards Donald Trump
Thank God that the attempted assassination of US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump was unsuccessful. Violence is the last refugee of failed thinkers. When poor debaters cannot win the argument they attack the man rather than "play the ball". This takes various forms, such as slander, mockery, threatening, followed by a long line of Machiavellian techniques, …
The cowardice of human shields
Human shields refer to fighters who use a defenceless human being to protect them from their opponents. This is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions and it is classified as a war crime. The most recent and public example of human shields is in Gaza, where its Hamas leadership uses civilians as human shields for its …