Comments on: Captain Moroni: War Criminal

By: John C.

John C. — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:56:54 +0000

Steve,
I only found one of the comments, which I reinstated. What was the missing comment? I didn’t remove it, so I don’t know why it might have been removed. If you would like to email it to me, I could provide some further help. Please email me at hpsoandsos [at] gmail [dot] com.

By: John C.

John C. — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:49:48 +0000

Steve,
They may have been caught in an overly aggressive spam filter. Let me see if I can free them up.

By: Steve Graham

Steve Graham — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:18:01 +0000

I have had 2 comments deleted from this thread. Why?

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:21:01 +0000

Well he sure chose the wrong profession, didn’t he? This should go down in the Annals of Great Failures in Career Counseling.

+++ And I bet his buddies had a whole hell of a lot of respect for him knowing he'd not help them out if they happened to be in a firefight.

By: CS Eric

CS Eric — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:22:05 +0000

Actually, after WWII the Army learned that a significant proportion of soldiers never fired their weapons. And studies showed that, of those who did, many shot into the air or otherwise deliberately missed. One question my father, who served in Korea, never answered was whether he’d ever shot anyone. As for me, when I was active duty in the Air Force, I was an officer, and even though they issued me a sidearm, they wouldn’t let me have any bullets.

By: Steve Graham

Steve Graham — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:53:07 +0000

Why was my earlier post in this thread removed?

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:26:47 +0000

“I will die for my country. But I will not kill for my country.”

This is what the non-grunts say after their boot camp buddies have picked up Combat Action Ribbons. All of the sudden it’s, “Well I didn’t want one anyway!”

By: CS Eric

CS Eric — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:40:51 +0000

Thanks, Ray. Your #97 was much more polite than I would have been–which is why I didn’t respond to that comment.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:14:53 +0000

Josh (#94) – You can’t compare an entire population of the righteous (Enoch’s city) with a fractured population fighting internal dissent (Captain Moroni’s society) and come up with such a blanket statement like “there would have been no dead bodies”. If the Anti-Nephi-Lehis teach us nothing else, it should teach us that God doesn’t always protect the righteous from the wicked – or, in the case of the early saints crossing the plains, from the elements and their own bad decisions.

The idea that a past leader could have “thrown his people on the mercy of God” is baseless IF God would not have accepted those people due to unrighteousness. Also, many of the original Anti-Nephi-Lehis were slaughtered by the Lamanites, but their sons were preserved in their battles with those same Lamanites. Few things in life are as easy as your comment makes them seem.

By: gst

gst — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:18:07 +0000

[#44] [A] recently returned Mormon soldier (from Iraq) who told the film crews recording his family reunion at the airport that he did NOT support the war. He said, “I will die for my country. But I will not kill for my country.”

Well he sure chose the wrong profession, didn’t he? This should go down in the Annals of Great Failures in Career Counseling.