toldailytopic: Can the assassination of a dictator be justified?

[Ecumenicist]

I agree. We shouldn't stand around while they do evil.

No one said anything about standing around. Rome was converted to Christianity through active love, not passive bystanding, and not by violence.

Aimiel has little regard for Christ's commandments, and yet he continues to call himself a Christian. I've told him before, his theology lines up much better with Islam than Christianity.

 

[Ecumenicist]

Don't quit your day job.

Read a history book some time.

 

[Aimiel]

Read a history book some time.

Get saved.

 

[Nick M]

Define "abomination to God".

Again?

 

[kmoney]

Again?

Yes.

 

[Grayven]

Read a history book some time.

Read a pile of them.

 

[Nydhogg]

Almost every thinker since the dawn of time has held tyrannicide as a virtuous action. Is this answer enough?

 

[grebe]

How did the South view Abraham Lincoln?

 

[Nydhogg]

What's your point? That we should obey authorities even if we consider them tyrannical?