Christian’s Approach to Nuclear War

Christian’s Approach to Nuclear War

A Christians approach to Nuclear is entirely based on the opinion of

the person. Although in this essay I will try and generalise this and

try to find reasons as to why this might be.

In my view; yes, a Christians approach to nuclear war should be

different to other war. Any war goes against the teachings of

Pacifism, but in the world, unless you can get everyone to listen and

obey these teachings, then a more practical scheme should be adopted.

This then makes the basis of any war; that your enemy will not listen

to reason, so war being the last resort, you commence in battle.

Although this is different for nuclear war, because when you decide to

include ‘weapons of mass destruction’ we assume that your enemy is

evil, that other options and methods have been considered and that

this is the only way to stop them from harming other beings,

environment and lives.

In war, many people die for a cause that they believe is right and

some innocent people may. The war carries on until the opposition

forces are defeated. In Nuclear war this is different. When a nuclear

weapon is dropped on a certain area, it is not completely guaranteed

that every person you bomb is bad. Therefore in Nuclear war many more

innocent people die than in a war not containing nuclear warheads.

This is a reason why Christians may feel differently about types of

war.

Although one of Jesus’ commandments, “Love thy neighbour”, tells us

that no one should not kill another human being and this may justify

going to war. This is because if a dictator has many innocent people

under a strict regime, and if he was harming and killing undeserving

people then some form of action should be taken. This has applied to

everyday life when Saddam Hussein’s regime was defeated and his power

taken away. This would be an example to show that some war has good

intent and therefore cannot be generalised into saying that all war is