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Do you think the Medieval words of a Catholic cleric still relevant military policy today?

When asked about killing innocent bystanders in the Albigensian Crusade in the south of France, a Catholic cleric, abbot or bishop, said when the military were killing everyone, 'don't worry God will sort out his own', meaning, kill everyone those who are innocent as well as those guilty, God will pick out his people from the Satan's.

The blanket bombing of Vietnam, and before that the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where there were Christian congregations, and in Tonkin in northern Vietnam, didn't stop the 'christian' forces from America and Australia, the West, from killing everyone, and the suicide bombers of militant Islam don't seem to worry about innocent Muslim bystanders among the Jewish population of Israeli towns and cities (and elsewhere), it's not about innocent bystanders, it's about destruction, being an indication of resolve. It doesn't matter if you're Americans, British, Israeli, Zionist, Muslim, or Hamas, your resolve to wreak havoc is all that matters!

The news media talks about the poor Gazans, but they neglected to speak about the innocent Iraqis or Afghanis, in the recent Western wars, but oh, if Israeli 'bites' back against those seeking to annihilate them it is morally wrong, and the shame on Israeli self-defence MUST be called out!!

What is that known as? HYPOCRISY!!!!!
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We have to ask more than one cleric. There was an early medieval Christian practice of imposing penances upon returning warriors. It was felt at the time in the Catholic church that killing, even of an enemy soldier, was a somewhat sinful act. For example, after the 1066 battle of Hastings
[quote] A soldier received one year’s penance for each man he knowingly killed, forty days for each man he wounded.[/quote]
[b]https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/war-penance/17934[/b]

Penances were also imposed on some returning crusaders, although there was also an opposing view that going on a crusade was itself a form of penance. Over the centuries, churches have relaxed their views on the sinfulness of killing soldiers in wartime, but it wasn't always so.