@Owl @BowsacNoodle @bp What are you talking about? It isn't "working out" good or bad because nobody practices that anymore. Everyone used to say things like "say your prayers" and actually mean it because people used to be good Christians even towards their enemies, better times when we were winning.

Now everyone is like "I hope so and so is burning in Hell" because that value has been eroded, people have become judaized, praying to God to use His unlimited power to settle their petty grievances. We didn't start to lose because of the way we were, we became the way we are now as a result of falling.

Owl, I think you make the same wrong assumption as many fallen Christians, equating "May God have mercy on your soul" with "May humans have mercy on your living body for literally everything at all times." It's fine to kill someone and still hope they go to Heaven. The two aren't really related, you might even be doing their soul a favor by killing them.

(I know your OP in this thread is about effortposting, I only went to this trouble because you said you were honestly asking)