I think the UN should have produced a protocol for this kind of exception (i.e. breaking rules) in order to acquire some specific artifacts with a legal approach under UN application/approval. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47085 http://abcnews.go.com/International...nt-city-artifacts-war-crime/story?id=29441874 https://www.rt.com/news/338705-turkey-syria-artifacts-trade-churkin/
There's right & there's wrong and that's just plain wrong. Perhaps your moral compass would feel more at home on a pirate ship.
I don't see anything wrong if the terrorists are willing to give up their terror acts once receiving installments of money! We could save a lot of lives! We can also regain our peace of daily life! Some people of high morality standards may not agree with that!
God may not speak to me all the time, but there is one time when it is clear that God speaks to me. That is during a birthday party of a friend. During that party, that christian friend asks us to pause for a moment and consider if God had anything to say to us. I felt that God wanted me to go to a girl I never met before and told her to be a social worker. I never met her before, yet the inclination to tell her to be a social worker is very strong. Being the coward that I was, I walked to the girl and asked her if social worker had any meaning for her. She broke down into tears and told me that she had always wanted to be a social worker but had not the courage to do so. She asked me why I asked her such question. I told her the truth. She walked home, feeling very encouraged, and so do I. Such incident might not happen again, but on this one occasion, I felt God indeed speaks.
%% A bunch of farmers, Nitro?? Partly farmers. , kings, judges, King Solomon, King David+ Dr Luke also. Actually, since God is all mighty, all powerful, all knowing; an inacurate translation=NOT a big problem. One little kid asked his dad ''dad does God know we dont believe in him?? LOL Pres T Roosevelt said '' a thorough knowledge of the Bible, is worth more than a college education'' He liked guns,2, especially WINchesters.LOL
right... so new age friends (lots of them in north county san diego - although it the movement seems to be losing steam) who don't believe in the God of the bible but just aspire become like Gods themselves are humble servants but those of us who give credit to the Creator of the universe are doing so out of a sense of our own superiority?