How to replace for-loops with a functional statement in C#?

Question

A colleague once said that God is killing a kitten every time I write a for-loop.

When asked how to avoid for-loops, his answer was to use a functional language. However

Answer 1

Functional constructs often express your intent more clearly than for-loops in cases where you operate on some data set and want to transform, filter or aggregate the elements.

Loops are very appropriate when you want to repeatedly execute some action.

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For example

int x = array.Sum();

much more clearly expresses your intent than

int x = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
{
    x += array[i];
}