1) Keep in mind who was Jesus' audience. As I recall, he had nothing whatsoever to say about what should be governmental policy (something perhaps worthy of being kept in mind, I daresay, by so many who would argue that "Christian compassion" and What-Would-Jesus-Do, is properly exemplified by the advocacy and implementation of governmental social programs), while American citizens do.
I agree completely. My desire for social programs comes not from "what would Jesus do", but from my whole bargain or beg philosophy.
2) Jesus paid perhaps his highest compliment, to a soldier - a man who, when asking Jesus to heal his servant, stated that, as a soldier, he was quite experienced in the giving and receiving of commands, and he was confident that Jesus could efficaciously command the restoration of health, to his servant. Jesus praised him for such faith and directed the attention of his disciples, to it. He never criticized or condemned the man for being a soldier.
Nor would he ever, and I never implied that he would. My arguement was about war, not about soldiers. You said it yourself, Jesus's compliment had absolutely nothing to do with whether he was a soldier or not. It had to do with the man's faith.
3)If you think that war is a task that God or Jesus would oppose, then that is your religious understanding, isn't it?
Yes it is. There is no way that I will ever pull the trigger on another human being and think that makes me right with Jesus.
By the way, it is not Jesus or God, they are one and the same.
Or are you proposing that religious opinions should be kept out of politics?
Yes. I have stated that many times. The total separation of church and state. As may have been stated before, I let my faith influence my secular judgement, and many on both sides do the same thing. I have no issue with that. What I take issue with is the OFFICIAL use of it on the floor of the governing body. No official state law, rule, action, war, program, or anything else should ever be an official task or desire of God. Because then it becomes an issue of whose God. Since all citizens pay taxes, (at least most do), and not all are Christians, that goes against a government of the people. There must never be an official state religion. Once any member of Government says any official state action is ordained by God, then they imply that the official government of the nation is THEIR God.