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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Tuesday, May 28th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are talking about war. Now, unfortunately, war is something that we see in our world

all too often. And as we'll see this week, sometimes war is necessary. Yesterday, we talked

about anger and how anger is the first step to the possibility of war. But there are two types of

anger. There is a good and holy anger that is a response to evil,

just like we see Jesus responding to evil in the temple. There is a bad sort of evil that is

sinful, that seeks revenge and more harm than necessary, and is mostly just concerned with ourselves.

This type of anger should never lead to war and it can only lead to sin.

Today we are going to talk about just the basics of going to war and what our leaders

hopefully should and are taking into account before they make the

step toward war. Tomorrow we're going to go through what our church defines as a just war,

meaning a necessary war, a war that really is, it's not okay, no one likes war, but a war that the

church sees as necessary. Today, let's just talk about the basics, though. So first, the most

important thing to remember is this. War should always lead to peace. That is the objective of war. And now this is true,

whether we're talking about a big war or one of the tiny wars in our own life. War, of course,

means taking an aggressive stance and even being willing to physically harm

others so that big changes are possible. Now, there have been several situations where the

United States has gone to war. One of those that you're probably most familiar with was World War II.

World War II was a very complicated war with lots of different nations fighting.

But one of the things that we know most well that happened in World War II was the genocide

that the Nazis were trying to inflict upon the Jews, the Poles, and a couple of

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