I am sick or hearing about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. More people were killed in the first fire raid on Tokyo than at Hiroshima. Japanese civiliams (estimated at 100,000) killed themselves (women and children among them) to avoid capture by the Americans. The leaders in Washington thought that it would be even worse invading the Japanese home islands. Japanese suicide squads(of civiliams) were being organized and trained in Japan. The Japanese civiliams were being organized to resist to the death (with sharpened sticks) Americans armed with machine guns. The atomic bombs, fortunately, put an end to this by shocking the emperor. Even then the military leaders attempted a coup. The Japanese were asked to “endure that which cannot be endured.” Defeat. The bomb would have been dropped on Berlin, but was not ready until after the fall of Nazi Germany. How many American solders and how many Japanese civilians should have died needlessly to satisfy your pacifist beliefs? If the individual expresses compelling feelings of conscience, we admire his pacificism. But if the nation adopts such pacificism, which is not required by Christianity, it will gain not respect, but instead death. Is that what you want? Where do you get the ideal that Christianity requires pacifism?
