My War

War is in our life.  It has affected everyone who has ever lived directly or indirectly.  There is no escaping its grasp... at least not the way we live now.  I myself do not believe in war.  Is that to say that I wont fight?  I probably would fight if I was called to do so and I saw no other way.  The key phrase being no other way.  I know that there are many examples of people who have fought that were good men.  Men like Moroni, Mormon, Ammon, Washington, and etc.  But they fought because they saw no other way.  And there is a key difference in these men then there are in everyone else.  They abhor wickedness.  They never wanted to fight, but they were dragged into it by their countries and the enemies countries.  I myself am not that good of a man.  I cannot deny that I get a "high" from the fight.  I do get feelings that I crave after.  I cannot help myself from doing so.  I am not as good a man as then men listed above, but unlike them I believe I have a choice in to fight or not to fight.  I have but one example of the harmful effects of war among many examples of how war is necessary.  In the Book of Mormon they have many many wars.  They fight and fight and fight.  It usually ends that the righteous people win the war and they are saved by the Lord their Redeemer, but that never saves them from another fight.  The people who would have destruction and war always come back and threaten the righteous, and if there is no one to bring destruction the righteous turn to themselves to supply the destruction and war.  The fighting never ceases in the stories.  They fight and fight and fight.  Most of the time the righteous do it for good.  They show that you can fight and remain with God.  I do not deny that.  However the fighting never ceases.  No one stops the fighting for good no matter how many people they kill.  The two nations that are written about in the Book of Mormon are the Jaradites and the Nephite/Lamanite nations.  Their wars continue and continue throughout the Book of Mormon.  The only way that we see the fighting to end in these nations is for everyone to die.  If we follow the examples of these two nations and never put an end to the bloodshed ,whether we are righteous or not, the inevitable outcome will surely come to pass and we will all perish.  We cannot let this happen again and agian as proven in history.  We must find some other way to "fight" wickedness.  We must or there is no hope of a better world.  No hope of a world where in we can dwell in peace with our God.

The examples I have given are ones based on my religion and therefore are subjective to what I believe.  The way I wrote is also poor, please see past that to the point of my entry.