Men and woman in the military engage in activities that are in direct disobedience to Christ's commands.

Jesus says to do good to those who hate you. Just because one is wearing a uniform does not exempt oneself from Christ's command. One cannot do good to another who hate them if they are blowing their brains out with an M-16. Therefore it is disobedience to Christ.

Jesus says to love your enemies. One cannot show love to an enemy if they are tearing out their enemy's insides with a knife.

When one kills in the military, one makes millions of mothers childless, makes children fatherless, and creates great numbers of grieving widows. There is nothing honorable about that. That is what the military is trained to do. Trained to kill. They bring death, anguish, and despair to all those that stand in their way. And my heart is troubled as well by their actions, which are blessed by so many churches

Unlike these military men and women, Jesus gave help and aid to the widows and the orpahns. Military men and women, the so-called "Christian soldiers" simply create more widows and orphans for the following Christians to aid and comfort. These families have lost loved ones at the hand of "Christians," and they should be aided and reached out to by the following Christians of this world.

The word Christian means Christ-like. Killing is not by any means a Christ-like action. All lives are of the same worth to God. God does not deem one culture or one nation to be better than another. God loves all equally, in spite of our sin. Their lives are not worth more than our lives.

God forgives His people, even though the wages of sin is death. He forgave our tresspasses against Him. How can we show God's love if we do not also forgive other's trespasses in the same way?

The Bible says to be imitators of Christ. Christ did not kill anyone during His life on earth. His disciples did not kill others. They did not fear death.
Christians are supposed to be His disciples.

"To live is Christ and to die is gain."

In the words of the great Christian novelist Leo Tolstoy, who was a lieutenant in the Russian army at one time...

"We must say that by whatever name people may call murder - murder always remains murder and a criminal and shameful thing.

With regard to those who voluntarily choose a military career, I would propose to state clearly and definitely that not withstanding all the pomp, glitter, and general approval with which it is surrounded, it is a criminal and shameful activity; and that the higher the position a man holds in the military profession the more criminal and shameful his occupation."

And I agree wholeheartedly.