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An Eastern Orthodox article on the concept of Just War

a quote from the latter source, with my comments:

"Just war doctrine attempts to define situations wherein the waging of war becomes a moral necessity. It lays out criteria by which a Christian is intended to determine whether or not a specific war was entered into and is conducted in a virtuous manner, that killing becomes a moral necessity. The doctrine was developed by theologians of great influence in much of non-Orthodox Western Christianity, such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. This principle was the underpinning of Roman Catholic doctrinal support for the Crusades, presumably including the Fourth Crusade."

Pope Innocent III certainly thought that the war he was planning against the Saracens was just: not that the sack of Constantinople, which he had expressly forbidden, was; though he took advantage of that injustice after it was committed. A doctrine does not cease to be true because it can be or even has been misapplied.

"By contrast, Orthodox Christianity has never developed an explicit "just war" doctrine, and the weight of Tradition is that the taking of human life is never a morally edifying act, although circumstances may require that such an act be taken, it would only be as an alternative to an even greater evil."

The Roman Catholic doctrine about just war IS precisely that war is only just when the alternative is a greater evil, i e an extremely unjust "peace" tantamount to slavery under robbers or something like that. It may be added that one of the criteria is a reasonable hope to really avoid the evils greater than those of not fighting.

See also Orthodox Wiki article Alexander Nevsky and this blogpost on St Niketas the Goth.

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Cf: "SCRIBE". The Rise of Communism (NWO), pt 1. Rumormillnews. 2003-01-08. URL:http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read/27262. Accessed: 2008-12-05. (Archived by WebCite^® at http://www.webcitation.org/5cqUMWyQW)

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"SCRIBE". The Rise of Communism (NWO) pt 2. Rumormillnews. 2003-01-08. URL:http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/read/27263. Accessed: 2008-12-05. (Archived by WebCite^® at http://www.webcitation.org/5cqUZGrpC)

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